Solved by a verified expert:Exercise 10,
Biology in Forensic Investigations
Activity 1,
Powers of Observation, #1-8
3.
What is your skill rating? _____
5.
What is your partner’s skill rating? _____
Was
your skill rating the same as that of your partner? _____
6.
Did you both identify exactly the same alterations in the photos? If not, what
were the differences?
7.
Based on the results of this activity, why might it be important to have more
than one person look at a crime scene?
8.
What types of activities typically performed by a forensic investigator depend
on accurate observation skills? Give two examples and explain how observation
skills are involved in each example you cite.
Activity 2,
Fingerprint analysis
Latent
and known fingerprints, #1-4
1.
Suggest some other parts of the body that could leave prints.
a.
b.
c.
2.-3.
Take your own fingerprints and place them in the appropriate locations in
Figure 10-4.
4.
Examine each print and identify the pattern (using the information in Figures
10-2 and 10-3). Write the identification for each finger directly below the
appropriate fingerprint in Figure 10-4.
Attach a photo
or scan of Figure 10-4 with your assignment submission.
Fingerprint
details, #1-2
1.
Return to your fingerprints in Figure 10-4. Identify two fingers that have the
same basic fingerprint patterns (e.g., both whorls or both simple loops). Are
the prints identical? Explain.
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