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Choose The Letter of The Best Answer in Each Questions
Choose The Letter of The Best Answer in Each Questions
Choose The Letter of The Best Answer in Each Questions
1. ________ are tiny portions or is a hill-Like structure found on the epidermis of friction skin containing
sweat, with pores appearing as black lines in a fingerprint impression.
b. Furrows
d. Ridges
2. What is that downward slope of the ridges above the core formed from the direction of the thumb
towards the little finger?
d. Loop
3. He published nine (9) fingerprint patterns, but he made no mention of the value of fingerprints for
personal identification.
c. Malpighi
d. J.C.A. Mayer
4. What is that two innermost ridges running parallel with each other and diverging at a certain point
surrounding the pattern area?
b. Divergence
c. Convergence
5. What are those that are sometimes referred to as papillary or epidermal ridges?
d. Fingerprints
6. When the innermost sufficient recurve contains no ending ridge or rod rising as high as the shoulder
of the loop, the Core is placed on the shoulder of the loop farther from the Delta.
a. True
b. False
a. Dermis
b. Epidermis
c. Scarf
d. Pores
8. What is that portion of the fingerprint bounded by the type lines where the characteristics needed
for interpretation/classification is found?
b. Loops
c. Ridges
b. Bifurcation
c. Cone
11. It appears after the sub-secondary classification at the extreme right portion of the classification
formula.
12. Complete this adage, “The neighboring fingers of the same person have never been found to be
_________.”
14. What type of classification takes into consideration only the loop type starting from the right thumb
(the first loop appearing in the set of prints on a fingerprint card?
15. What is that epidermal hairless skin found on the lower surface of the hands and feet covered with
minute ridges?
c. Epidermis
16. What do you call the inner terminus or focal point located at the center or the approximate center
of the pattern area?
a. Center
b. Delta
c. Core
17. He used his own thumb print on a document to prevent forgery. This is the first known use of
fingerprints in the United States.
a. Bertillon
c. Thompson
d Bidloo
18. It is the ridge count of the loop and the whorl in the little finger of both hands.
a. Whorls
b. Arches
20. Two ridges running parallel or nearly parallel to each other which separate in an opposite direction.
a Delta
b. Core
c. Divergence
d. Convergence
d. Enclosures
22. He published a 41-pages book entitled “The Origin of Fingerprint” which describes his research
starting in 1858 when he practiced actual recording of the finger and palm prints of India
23. What patterns do not have numerical value for purposes of primary classification?
24. What classification takes into consideration the thumbs of both hands (ridge tracing for whorl type
and ridge counting for loop type)?
25. What is the spreading apart of two lines which have been running parallel or nearly parallel?
a. Bifurcation
b. Convergence
c. Appendage
d. Divergence
26. What type of pattern possesses am angle, an up thrust, or two of the three basic characteristics of
the loop?
27. He discovered the outer and inner layer of the skin.
a. Plantar
b. Palmar
c. Furrows
d. Chiroscopic
29. What are the canals of depression found between ridges called?
a. Dents
b. Pores
c. Furrows
d. Indentions
30. What is the act of counting the ridges which intervene between the core and delta of a loop?
a. Divergence
31. He is an Argentine Police Official who began the first fingerprint files based on Galton pattern types.
c. Thomson
d. Galton
32. What pattern type has ridges that enter on one side of the pattern and flow towards the other side
with a rise In the center?
b. Loop
33. The Introduction of the coloring pigment in the human skin as a form of identification is known as
_________.
a. Scarcification
b. Anthropometry
c. Tattoo
d. Photography
34. The configuration and details of individual ridges remain constant and unchanging. This is the
principle of ________.
35. He published an article entitled” On the Skin Furrows of the Hand”. In this article he points out his
observation that chance prints left at the scene of the crime would provide for positive identification
of offenders when apprehended.
36. It represents all fingerprint patterns that appear in the Index finger of both hands. It must
a. 2
b. 5
c. 1
d. 10
a. Dermis
b. Pores
c Scarf
d. Epidermis
39. He published a book which was an atlas of anatomical illustrations of fingerprint.
a. Malphighi
40. He is credited as the first scientist of Friction Skin Identification as well as his role in promoting its
use.
d. Francis Galton
a. Dactyloscopy
b. Fluoroscopy
c. Poroscopy
d. Palmistry
a. Focal Points
b. Inner Terminus
c. Pattern Area
d. Outer Ridges
a. Dermis
b. Dermal
c. Digitus
d. Dactyl
44 A system of identification based on the measurements of the various bony structure of the human
body.
a. Tattoo
c. Anthropometry
d. Photography
a. 12
b. 9
c. 8
d. 10
a. Vucetich
47. What are the little openings on the skin from where sweat is excreted?
a. Ridges
b. Whorl
c. Pores
d. Loop
48. What ridge divides itself into two or more branches that meet to form the original figure?
c. Eyelet
a. Dactylography
b. Dcatyloscopy
c. Dactylomaney
d. Dactylo-analysis
50. He undertook in 1856 an experiment by printing his night palm to prove himself if the ridges
change. By 1897, forty-one years later, he again printed his right palm. Though taken two scores apart, it
proved that the ridge characteristics do not change.