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WVU FIS 480 Final Study Guide
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j Accredited Laboratory - DNA Laboratory that has received form recognition that it meets or exceeds a
list of standards by a nonprofit professional association of persons actively involved in forensic science
that is nationally recognized within the forensic science community in accordance with the provisions of
the Federal DNA Identification Act
Accuracy - Degree of conformity of a measured quantity to its actual (true) value.
Administrative Review - Evaluation of the report and supporting documentation for consistency with
laboratory policies and for editorial correctness
Analyst - employee or contact employee, that has successfully completed the laboratory's training
requirements for casework sample analysis, passed a competency test, and has entered into a
proficiency testing program according to these standards. This individual conducts and/or directs the
analysis of forensic samples, interprets data, and reaches conclusions.
Analytical documentation - Documentation of procedures, standards, controls' and instruments used;
observations made; results of tests performed; and charts, graphs, photos, and other documentation
generated which are sued to support the analyst's conclusions.
Analytical Procedure - Orderly, step-by-step process designed to ensure operational uniformity and to
minimize analytical drift.
Annual - Once per calendar year
Assessment - On-site systematic, independent, documented process for determining laboratory
competence and for obtaining records, statements of fact or other relevant information by assessors at
the laboratory facilities and other places where test or calibration services are provided with the
objective of determining the extent to which requirements are fulfilled.
, Audit - An inspection used to evaluate, confirm, or verify activity related to quality.
"A Fact finding mission"
Calibration - Set of operations which establish, under specified conditions, the relationship between
values indicated by measuring instrument or measuring system, or values represented by a material, and
the corresponding known values of measurement.
Competency test(s) - A written, oral, and/or practical test or series of tests designed to establish that an
individual has demonstrated achievement of technical skills and met minimum standards of knowledge
necessary to perform forensic DNA analysis
Contamination - Unintentional introduction of exogenous DNA into a DNA sample or PCR reaction
Critical equipment or instruments - Those requiring calibration or a performance check prior to use and
periodically thereafter
Critical reagents - Determined by empirical studies or routine practice to require testing on established
samples before use on evidentiary casework reference samples
Customer - Any person or organization that engages the services of a testing or calibration laboratory
Developmental Validation - Acquisition of test data and determination of conditions and limitations of a
new or novel DNA methodology for use on Forensics and/or casework reference samples.
Guidelines - Set of general principles used to provide direction and parameters for decision making.
Integral component - Portion of an academic course that is so significant and necessary to the
understanding of the subject matter as a whole the the course would be considered incomplete without
it.
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