Dermatoglyphics and Dactyl Classification
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What is the term for the study of fingerprints as a means of identification?

  • Scarification
  • Dactyloscopy (correct)
  • Ridgeology
  • Delta Classification

    • What is the process of counting the ridges that touch or cross an imaginary line drawn between the core and the delta of a loop?

  • Sequencing
  • Ridge Tracing
  • Ridge Counting (correct)
  • Delta Classification

    • What is the term for the canals or depressions between the ridges in a fingerprint?

  • Core
  • Furrows (correct)
  • Delta
  • Ridges

    • What is the term for the process of tracing the ridge that originates from the left delta towards the right delta?

    <p>Ridge Tracing</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the placing of a group of classified sets of prints in their correct filing order?

    <p>Sequencing</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the study of poroscopy, edgeoscopy, and ridge characteristics for the purpose of positive identification of fingerprints?

    <p>Ridgeology</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the location of the dermal papillae?

    <p>In the inner layer of the skin containing blood vessels</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the function of the sweat duct?

    <p>To serve as the passage way for the sweat that exits at its mouth, the pore</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the characteristic of a Bifurcation Sweat Pore?

    <p>It is a small opening found anywhere across the ridge surface</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is an Island Ridge?

    <p>A single ridge that divides itself into two or more branches</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the characteristic of a Ridge ending with an abrupt ending?

    <p>It is an Ending Ridge</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the outer covering of the skin?

    <p>Stratum Corneum</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the characteristic of the ridge structures described in the text?

    <p>Appearing as a series of 'patches'</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who is credited with being the 'Grandfather of Dactyloscopy'?

    <p>Dr. Marcello Malphighi</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Herman Welcker's experiment prove in 1856 and 1897?

    <p>Ridge characteristics do not change over time</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Dr. Marcello Malphighi name the inner and outer layers of the skin?

    <p>Dermis and epidermis</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who undertook an experiment to prove that fingerprints do not change over time?

    <p>Herman Welcker</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the focus of Prof. Johannes Purkinje's book 'Commentatio de Examinine Physiologico Organi Visus et Systematis Cutanei'?

    <p>The classification of fingerprint patterns</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who is considered the father of chiroscopy?

    <p>Sir William James Herschel</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the title of Sir William James Herschel's book?

    <p>The Origin of Fingerprinting</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In which city did Dr. Henry Faulds publish an article in 1880?

    <p>Tokyo</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the title of Dr. Nehemiah Grew's thesis?

    <p>Philosophical Transactions</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who was the first European of the modern period to practice fingerprint identification?

    <p>Sir William James Herschel</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who published an article in Nature describing the importance of fingerprint identification?

    <p>Dr. Henry Faulds</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the result of John Dellinger's attempt to remove his fingerprints?

    <p>He was unsuccessful and his fingerprints were still identifiable.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is Plaridel Education Institution now known as?

    <p>The Philippine College of Criminology</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was Robert James Pitt known for?

    <p>Being the man without fingerprints</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the significance of People vs. Medina?

    <p>It was the first leading judicial decision on the science of fingerprinting</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was Isabela Bernales known for?

    <p>Being the first Filipina fingerprint technician</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How many points of identity were required in the People of the Philippines vs Medina case?

    <p>10 points of identity</p> Signup and view all the answers

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