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Who was employed in the Central Police Department in La Plata Argentina and was ordered to drop his own unique system of classifying prints and install the Bertillion Anthropometric System? |
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Who wrote Dactilospia Comparada? |
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Who was employed in the Central Police Department in La Plata Argentina and was ordered to drop his own unique system of classifying prints and install the Bertillion Anthropometric System? |
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His system of classifying prints became operational in Scotland Yard in 1901 |
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What year did the Henry System of Classification system become operational in Scotland Yard? |
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Who used fingerprints in India to ID workers to ensure payment of wages was never duplicated? |
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Who was the 1st European to recognize the value of friction ridge prints and to actually use them for ID purposes? |
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Who was the first person to confirm ridge persistency? |
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Who took his own palm prints in 1860 and again in 1890? |
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Who wrote the "Hooghly Letter" in which he propounded the idea that persons committed to prison should be fingerprinted to confirm their identity? |
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Who experimented with fingerprints since 1857 but never associated them with crime scenes |
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Who used a unique system of classifying prints which helped solve the Rojas murders in 1893 |
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Who fingerprinted his patients, then removed the skin on their fingers to see if their ridge detail was exactly the same after the skin regrew? |
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Who wrote to Charles Darwin in 1880 requesting aid in obtaining fingerprints of lemurs? |
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Who wrote in article in Nature in 1880 on fingerprints? |
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Who is credited with writing the first sentence ever written regarding crime investigation of fingerprints? |
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Who gave evidence to the Asquith committee which lead to his classification system being added to the Bertillion cards in England? |
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Who published the book "Fingerprints"? |
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Who is he cousin of Charles Darwin who was forwarded Fauld's Letter? |
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Who is credited with establishing that friction ridge skin is unique and persistent? |
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Who was the first to define and name specific fingerprint minutiae |
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Who is the father of Canadian Fingerprinting? |
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Who was the first American Fingerprint Lecturer? |
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The International Association for Identification was formed in what year? |
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What was first american case (appellate) regarding the admissability of FP testimony ? |
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What was the first conviction obtained with fingerprint evidence alone in the US? |
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Who stated collecting full sets of prints in 1890 (After previously only collecting thumbs)? |
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Who observed a local Indian practice of putting a friction ridge print of a finger beside a signature on contracts? |
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Who made a fingerprint stamp? |
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Who mentions in a letter to Darwin that friction ridges never change and that one can apprehend criminals by locating fingerprints at crime scenes? |
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Who created the Anthropometry identification system? |
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Bertillonage uses what body measurements and characteristics? |
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head length, length of left foot, length of left middle finger, face height, scars, hair, and eye color |
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True or False: Fingerprints were added to the anthropometric cards. |
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True (Complete set is 11 measurements, 2 photos, and set of 10 prints) |
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Whose fingerprint classification system utilized four fingerprint patterns that are described in his book Dactilospia Comparada? |
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Who made fingerprint demonstrations to the Troup Committee in England to persuade them to add fingerprints to the anthropometric system? |
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What year did the New York City Civil Service Commission start using fingerprints to prevent impersonations during examinations? |
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What two books, written by Mark Twain, mention fingerprints? |
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Pudd'n Head Wilson and Life on the Mississippi |
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What year was the world fair in St. Louis? |
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Who came from Scotland Yard to discuss fingerprints at the World Fair in St. Louis? |
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Who, in 1904, began fingerprinting all inmate at Leavenworth, which was the beginning of the US government's fingerprint collection? |
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Which professor classified 9 principle configuration groups of fingerprints and assigned each a name? |
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Who is credited to first use a microscope when looking at friction ridge detail? |
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Who published a paper on the similarity in appearance of the eminences or walking surfaces of primates and named two of the volar pads: thenar and hypothenar? |
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Who was the first to recognize that ridges assisted grip by creating friction and had a function other than increasing tactile stimulus? |
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Whose research found that all mammals have the same morphological arrangement of volar pads on the hand and feet? |
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Who describes the evolutionary process of friction ridge development? |
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Who describes the anatomical formation of friction ridges and how ridge unit are subjected to differential growth and as a result, friction ridges are unique? |
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Who published the first scientific research supporting 3rd level detail as permanent and unique? |
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Whose research involves the examination of thin slices of fetal skin, cut into sections at different stages of development? |
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Whose paper contains photographs of the dermal and corresponding epidermal surfaces which have been dye stained for easy viewing? |
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Whose photos show that the original structure of papillae are in double rows under the epidermal friction ridge? |
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Who published a paper on the research into prenatal relationship between epidermal dimension and bone dimension of the hand? |
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Who was the first researcher to address the formation of friction ridges in embryos and the topographical physical stressors that affect their growth? |
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Who wrote "Fingerprints, Palms and Soles-An Introduction to Dermatoglyphics" which describes the formation and development of volar pads on the human fetus? |
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Who is best known for the 1962 article "Edgeoscopy" which describes theory on using specific ridge edge shapes to supplement fingerprint individualization? |
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Who is credited as being the first fingerprint pioneer who published extremely accurate drawings of fingerprints and areas of the palms (in the 17th century) |
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What are the 3 general groups of fingerprint patterns? |
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What are the two main sub-groups of the Loop pattern? |
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The forking or dividing of one ridge into two or more branches is called: |
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The spreading apart of two ridges which have been running parallel or nearly parallel is called: |
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The point on a ridge at or in front of and nearest the center of the divergence of the type lines |
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The appoximate center of the finger impression is called the: |
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The number of ridges intervening between the delta and the core is known as the: |
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In this type of arch the ridges tend to enter the impression on one side of the arch and then flow out the other side of the impression, however, the ridge or ridges at the center do not. |
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This type of fingerprint pattern occurs in thirty percent of all ingerprints |
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This type of whorl has two deltas and at least one ridge which makes or tends to make a complete circuit and requires that an imaginary line drawn between the two deltas must not touch or cross any recurving ridges within the inner pattern area |
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Central Pocket Loop Whorl |
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This type of whorl has two separate loop formations, with two separate and distinct sets of shoulders, and two deltas |
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This type of whorl consists of a combination of two or more different types of patterns |
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A whorl tracing where the ridge traced passes inside the right delta, and three or more ridges intervene between the tracing ridge and the delta, the tracing is designated as an: |
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Two forks of a bifurcation may never constitute type lines, except for one exception: |
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Th forks run parallel after bifurcation and then diverge. |
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The delta may not be located on a bifurcation which: |
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does not open to the core |
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when there is a choice between a bifurcation and another type of delta, equally close to the point of divergence, which is selected? |
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When there is a series of bifurcation opening toward the core at the point of divergence of the two type lines, which is chosen? |
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the bifurcation nearest the core |
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what are the three essential requirements of the loop? |
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a sufficient recurve, a delta, and a ridge count |
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the pattern areas of loops and whorls are enclosed by: |
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the part of a loop or whorl in which appear the cores, deltas, and ridges with which we are concerned in classifying is called: |
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What is defined as the two innermost ridges which start paralle, diverge, and surround or tend to surround the pattern area? |
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What are the three types of tented arches? |
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1. angle 2. upthrust 3. possessing two of the basic or essential characteristics of the loop, but lacking the third |
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