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What determines the main pattern of a fingerprint?

• Cell tissue

• Volar cells

• Volar pads

• Nothing

The three greatest areas of stress on a growing finger are:

• Near the fingernail

• Near the crease at the first joint

• On top of the volar pads

• Sides of the finger, next to the bone

Some factors that determine whether ridgelines become a dead end or a fork are(as mentioned in the video):

• How nerves and capillaries grow

• Nutrients found in food digested by mother

• Orientation relative to gravity

• Fluid pressure changes

How many different possibilities of fingerprints are there when thinking of it as a coinflip?

• 2

• Hundreds of Billions

• Hundreds of Trillions

• A bit more than a quadrillion

What does mass spectrometry measure?

• Number of molecules

• Weight of molecules

• Length of molecule chain

What is the name of the method that help investigators find a match to a print?

• ACE-V

• FPR-C

• SAD-J

• VET-X

How often do examiners make false positive identifications?

• 0.08%

• 1%

• 0.01%

• 0.1%

When was Mayfield arrested?

• 2002

• 2004

• 2003

• 2005