Fingerprint Identification

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Across
  1. 2. Fingerprint identification is based primarily on the _______, or the location and direction of the ridge endings and bifurcations (splits) along a ridge path.
  2. 4. What is the name of the characteristics/points in which fingerprints can be identified?
  3. 6. In what year did the FBI fund the development of fingerprint scanners? (Write year out fully)
  4. 9. What was the name of the man that defined some of the points or characteristics from which fingerprints can be identified?
  5. 10. Approximately how long have fingerprints been used as a source of identification?
Down
  1. 1. __________do not always flow continuously throughout a pattern and often result in specific characteristics such as ending ridges, dividing ridges and dots, or other information.
  2. 3. If a fingerprint match is made, who is the information given to next?
  3. 5. What material is used most commonly to lift latent fingerprints?
  4. 7. What is the abbreviation for the FBI's Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System?
  5. 8. What does the word 'latent' mean, as mentioned in the video?The