Forensics

Regionals: 8th

Mentors: Ms. Reese and Mr. Hellman (Pending His OK) Textbook: Criminalistics: A Guide to Forensic Science By Richard Saferstein

Questions from this year's states test: What are the two phases in a chromatogram called? What does PCR stand for? Who won the Nobel Prize in 1993 for inventing PCR? Match a certain compund to its mass spectrum and explain what the three highest peaks represent. Write the chemical formula for a plastic monomer (given a specific plastic).

Trace Evidence Given In The Past: Regionals 2008: Glass, Fingerprints States 2008: Blood Spatter, Blood Typing, Entomology Invitationals 2009: Glass, Fingerprints Regionals 2009: Bullet Striations, Blood Spatter States 2009: Fingerprints, DNA, Blood Typing

P.S: PCR stands for Polmerase Chain Reaction and Kary Mullis won the Nobel Prize in 1993 for PCR. ( in chemistry ) (:

Rachel Hellman is interested/will work on this event during the summer. Jiashan Zhang is also interested