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 (B)</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 (A)</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 (C)</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 (C)</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 (C)</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 (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is an Island Ridge?

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

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

<p>Stratum Corneum (A)</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' (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Dr. Marcello Malphighi (B)</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 (D)</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 (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Herman Welcker (C)</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 (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who is considered the father of chiroscopy?

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

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

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

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

<p>Tokyo (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Philosophical Transactions (D)</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 (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Dr. Henry Faulds (B)</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. (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is Plaridel Education Institution now known as?

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

What was Robert James Pitt known for?

<p>Being the man without fingerprints (C)</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 (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was Isabela Bernales known for?

<p>Being the first Filipina fingerprint technician (C)</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 (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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