Hair and Fiber Vocab

Scale pattern that looks like flower petal-like scales.

scale pattern that looks like a stack of crown-like scales

scale pattern with narrow, flattened, overlapping scales

Small but measurable amounts of material found at a crime scene

Evidence moves from a source (e.g., carpet) to a person, then another

Evidence moves directly between a victim and suspect

Fiber made from a man-made substance such as plastic

Fiber made from animal, plant, or mineral sources

Fiber pattern created by mineral crystals

Pigment fragments found in the cortex of a hair

A substance made up of long chains of repeating units

A small molecule that bonds with others to form a polymer

A fibrous protein that makes up the majority of the hair cortex

The tough outer layer of a hair made of overlapping scales

The center of a hair fiber

The middle layer of the hair shaft providing strength

The actively growing root of hair containing live cells