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A technique of personal identification that in the future may challenge fingerprints as the most positive means of physical identification is: _____.

A) voiceprint identification
B) DNA analysis
C) spectrography
D) chromatography

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The process of deciphering codes and ciphers used by criminals to protect the security of their messages is known as: _____.

A) spectrography
B) chromatography
C) cryptography
D) logic of set theory analysis

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To make the determination of whether or not a person has recently fired a handgun the criminalist would subject hand swabs from the subject to which laboratory examination?

The FBI is supporting the linking of state DNA databases together to form a national database known as _____.

Each nucleated cell contains the full complement of an individuals DNA, called the genome that is unvarying from cell to cell.

Identification in criminalistics is aligned with the logic of _____.

_____ is a method of separating compounds to identify the components.

The deciphering of ciphers and codes that are used to protect the security of messages is known as _____.

The informational output of a crime laboratory depends upon what?

_____ is used to restore obliterated serial numbers on firearms.

Person-to-person differences within a segment of DNA are referred to as _____.

The cipher in which one symbol or letter stands for another symbol or letter is known as a transposition cipher.

The person-to-person differences within a particular segment of DNA sequence are known as: _____.

A spectrograph is used in the identification of firearms.

Ultrasonic cavitation involves the graphic identification of human voices.

Chromatography is a method used in the identification of crystalline solids.

Neutron activation analysis is used in the study of _____ residues.

_____ is the profession and scientific discipline of applying the natural sciences in matters of law.

The FBI has selected 13 loci to serve as a standard battery of core loci for DNA analysis.

Degraded, contaminated, and small quantities of DNA can be successfully analyzed in the crime laboratory due to which laboratory process?