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Total cards: 24•Content version: v4•Public deck•Updated: 8/1/2026

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#1
Front (Question)

Explain the Bertillon system

Back (Answer)

identified people with body measurement (height, reach, width of the head, length of left foot)

#2
Front (Question)

Evidence say that fingerprint’s individuality was first recognized during _______

Back (Answer)

prehistoric time

#3
Front (Question)

in ____, William ____ suggests that fingerprints don’t change over life

Back (Answer)

1858 Herschel

#4
Front (Question)

Henry ____ suggests that fingerprints ____

Back (Answer)

Faults can be used to identify one person

#5
Front (Question)

Francis _____ publishes a textbook and ______

Back (Answer)

Galton types of fingerprints

#6
Front (Question)

In ___, Edward ____ invents ________ that we still use today

Back (Answer)

1899 Henry system classification

#7
Front (Question)

A fingerprints is ____ and ____ shared by two people

Back (Answer)

individual not

#8
Front (Question)

The skin of the fingertips ____ after _____. If major damage ____ can be used to identify people

Back (Answer)

repair burn or shaving scars

#9
Front (Question)

The valleys of the fingerprints = _____ The mountains of the fingerprints=_____

Back (Answer)

grooves friction ridges

#10
Front (Question)

The friction ridges help with _______

Back (Answer)

friction/grip

#11
Front (Question)

Our skin secretes/picks up ___. Some of it is left behind when we touch stuff making a replica of ______

Back (Answer)

oil the pattern of friction ridges

#12
Front (Question)

Name the 3 types of fingerprints

Back (Answer)

arch loop whorls

#13
Front (Question)

___ of the population has arch

Back (Answer)

5%

#14
Front (Question)

what are the two type of subgroups in arch

Back (Answer)

plain and tented

#15
Front (Question)

_____ of the population has loops

Back (Answer)

60-65%

#16
Front (Question)

_____ is when the loop points to the side of the thumb ____ Is when the loop points to the side of the pinky

Back (Answer)

radial ulnar

#17
Front (Question)

___ of the population has whorls.

Back (Answer)

30-35%

#18
Front (Question)

Name the four types of whorls?

Back (Answer)

Plain whorls central pocket loop whorls double loop whorl accidental loop whorl

#19
Front (Question)

when a ridge is a straight line we say it is a …

Back (Answer)

ridge ending

#20
Front (Question)

when a ridge seperates in two comme un fer a cheval we say it…

Back (Answer)

bifurcation

#21
Front (Question)

when a ridge seperates in two then reunites in one straight line we say it is…

Back (Answer)

a lake

#22
Front (Question)

When there is a small, lonely, line we say it is an…

Back (Answer)

independant ridge

#23
Front (Question)

when there is a small dot we call it a …

Back (Answer)

dot or island

#24
Front (Question)

when a line emerges from a straight line and leaves in another direction we call it a…

Back (Answer)

spur