MCQs On Fingerprints

Enhance your Knowledge of Fingerprints by taking this test.

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#1. The following forms the finger ridges:

#2. Most common fingerprint pattern. It has ridges that enter from the right and exit from the same side they enter:

#3. The final purple coloured compound produced during the development oflatent fingerprints with ninhydrin is known as ________.

#4. What was the original fingerprinting system adopted by Scotland Yard in 1901 which converted ridge patterns on all 10 fingers into a series of letters and numbers arranged in the form of a fraction?

#5. In the comparison of a scene fingerprint with one held on the IDENT1 database, a full identification is made:

#6. Latent finger marks present on the victim’s skin can be developed by:

#7. Which of the following is a physical method for developing latent finger mark?

#8. The outer terminus in a pattern formed by either bifurcation of ridge or by the widening of the two ridges running parallel up to the point is called:

#9. The amino acid-ninhydrin reaction produces a purple compound called:

#10. Which of the following fingerprint visualisation techniques is particularly effective on paper that has been wet, materials soaked in petrol and chip wrappers?

#11. Fingerprints on moist and sticky items are developed by:

#12. The skin layer between the epidermis and dermis is the _________ layer:

#13. Sweat glands near the hair follicle:

#14. Leuomalachite green reagent is used in developing:

#15. The International Association for Identification concluded that the minimum number of friction ridge characteristics which must be present in two impressions in order to establish positive identification is:

#16. To visualise the latent fingerprints, ninhydrin reacts with which of the following ?

#17. In case of amputation of one finger, the following print is considered in classification:

#18. A ridge that forks and forms a complete circle and then becomes a single ridge again is called as:

#19. Following technique provides a unique fingerprint of a chemical structure:

#20. Fingerprints are a(n) _________ characteristic. No two people have the identical ridge patterns:

#21. All the ten fingers having loop pattern will have classification as_________.

#22. The dark portion of the fingerprint is called the ________:

#23. Which of the following is not one of the features that must be present in order for a fingerprint pattern to be classified as a loop pattern?

#24. Who is credited for his practical interest in fingerprints as a means of identifying workers to detect duplicate payment of wages?

#25. Ten fingerprints classification system is also known as:

#26. What is the basis for the determination of the primary classification of fingerprints?

#27. The study of fingerprints is called:

#28. No two individuals have more than ___ minutia in common:

#29. In primary fingerprint classification, following patterns are given numerical value:

#30. The latent fingerprint visualisation technique known as vacuum metal deposition involves the evaporation and subsequent deposition, under vacuum, of:

#31. Fingerprints on paper can be sprayed with this chemical that reacts with amino acids in sweat to make a purple print appear:

#32. Which of the following techniques is considered effective to develop latent fingerprints on non-porous surfaces?

#33. Visible prints left on a smooth surface when blood, ink, paint, grease, or other liquids come in contact with the hands and is transferred to the surface:

#34. The use of indanedione to develop latent fingermarks involves its reaction with which one of the following components of sweat residues?

#35. The three basic types of fingerprint pattern are:

#36. The layer of cells between the epidermis and dermis is called as:

#37. _________ technique is used to decipher latent finger-prints on wet non-porous surfaces.

#38. The essentials of a fingerprint with loop pattern are:

#39. Which of the following statements is not true?

#40. The average fingerprint has approximately how many individual ridge characteristics?

#41. The most common type of fingerprint pattern is the:

#42. Oil red O is also known as:

#43. Ninhydrine is used to:

#44. The ‘fingerprint’ region of IR spectrum can be subdivided into the following except:

#45. Assertion (A): A ‘plain’ impression made by ink are unsatisfactory for fingerprint analysis. Reason (R): In ‘plain’ impression, larger number of points or junctions does not appear.

#46. Least common fingerprint pattern:

#47. Silver nitrate method to develop latent fingerprint is based on the reaction of silver ions with:

#48. Attempts at changing one’s fingerprints by trying to obscure them has led to:

#49. A technique for visualizing latent fingerprints on non-porous surfaces by exposing them to cyanoacrylate vapors is:

#50. Whorls are divided into how many distinct groups?

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