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What is hair?
This is the most frequently found pieces of evidence at a violent crime scene.
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What are tweezers or fingers?
You use these to pick up visible strands of hair when possible.
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What is a hair shaft?
This part of the hair is composed of the protein, keratin, which is produced in the skin.
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What is a continuous medulla?
In this type of medulla pattern, the line remains unbroken, or no break.
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What are inconsistencies?
This happens within each body region.
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What is a 3-year cycle?
This the amount of years it takes for approximately 250,000 hairs to get replaced.
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What are bindles?
We create these in order to place our hairs in and then place it into larger envelopes.
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What is a cuticle?
This layer of the shaft is the outer transparent part and protects the hair.
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What is a fragmented medulla?
In this type of medulla pattern, the line is unevenly spaced.
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What are 50 hairs?
This is the amount of hairs usually collected from a suspect's head.
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What is a red head?
This type of hair color tends to have the least amount of hairs.
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What is the same basic structure?
All hair has the _________________ structure.
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What is a medulla?
This layer of the shaft is the central core and usually a hollow tube, or filled with cells.
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What is a pencil?
This is the analogy we used to represent the structure of the hair shaft. (lead/wood/paint)
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What are the 6 types of hair on the human body?
Answers vary
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What is class evidence?
Hair is considered ______________ evidence because it cannot be used to identify a specific individual.
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What is a follicle?
This part of the hair is club-shaped and they develop during the fetal stage, but no new ones are produced after birth.
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What is a cortex?
This layer of the shaft is the middle layer, the largest part of the hair shaft, and contains pigment granules.
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What are head and pubic hairs?
They are the most common hairs found at the crime scene.
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Who is the principal of Veritas Academy?
Mr. Vanderwalker is the __________________ of Veritas Academy.
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What is a secondary transfer?
When my dog hair transfer to someone else in the classroom, it is called a _____________________ transfer.
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What is a sebaceous gland?
This type of gland secretes oil.
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What is a medulla?
This layer of the shaft in animals hairs show a wide variety of medulla patterns, only one or none in humans.
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What is texture?
This characteristic of hair can be coarse as it is whiskers or fine as it is in younger children.
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What is a cross section?
This characteristic of hair can be coarse as it is whiskers or fine as it is in younger children.
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