How Can We Individualize A Fingerprint

Question: ACE-V

Answer: A four-step process to identify and individualize a fingerprint.

  1. Analysis

  2. 2. Comparison

  3. 3. Evaluation

  4. 4. Verification

  5. Question: A of ACE-V

  6. Answer: Analysis: determining general classification (LAW) and ridge characteristics (looking for specific minutiae.

  7. Question: Who first wrote about fingerprints?

  8. Answer: Francis Galton

  9. Question: What is the name of the English fingerprint classification system?

  10. Answer: Henry System

  11. Question: Who devised and introduced the first systematic attempt at personal identification?

  12. Answer: Alphonse Bertillion

  13. Question: What is a system of identification relying on precise body measurements called?

  14. Answer: Anthropometry

  15. Question: Who wrote the first book written on the subject of fingerprints, called “Finger Prints,” in 1892 that discussed the anatomy of fingerprints and suggested methods for recording them?

  16. Answer: Francis Galton

  17. Question: Who devised the fingerprint classification system used in most English-speaking countries?

  18. Answer: Edward Richard Henry

  19. Question: Who has the largest collection of fingerprints in the world?

  20. Answer: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

  21. Question: Galton calculated that approximately how many different fingerprints could exist, and current figures are similarly high?

  22. Answer: 64 billion

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