Fingerprints, Tattoos and Identifying Marks
- Previous year questions on Fingerprints, Tattoos and Identifying Marks for NEET PG (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test - Postgraduate), from the Forensic Medicine section of the exam.
- Most questions here come from previous-year papers of Indian postgraduate medical entrance and licensing exams; where a paper and year are recorded the question carries them. The image-based questions are original vignettes written around an openly licensed figure, and were never asked in any exam.
- 20 live questions in Fingerprints, Tattoos and Identifying Marks.
- 1 of 20 questions carries a verified exam year: 2019.
- Forensic Medicine is worth about 10 of 300 questions on the exam. See every subject’s weightage.
- Question set last updated 27 Aug 2026.
Q1.Identical twins can be differentiated by:
- AFingerprint✓ Correct answer
- BDNA fingerprinting
- CBlood grouping
- DAge
Q2.Best method to group an old blood stain is
- ABenzidine test
- BSpectroscopy
- CAbsorption elusion✓ Correct answer
- DNone of the above
Q3.finger print bureau was first established in:
- AEngland
- BChina
- CIndia✓ Correct answer
- DSingapore
Q4.Tattoo marks are not visible during autopsy as confirmed by relatives where tattooing can be check next during autopsy
- ASkin
- BBlood vessels
- CLiver
- Dlymph Nodes✓ Correct answer
Q5.Locard's Principle is concerned with(2018)
- ATheory of exchange✓ Correct answer
- BCriminal responsibility for insane
- CCalculating age of fetus
- DFirearm wounds of skull
Q6.The most dependable means of personal identity is
- AAnthropometry
- BDactylography✓ Correct answer
- CSuper imposition
- DPhotography
Q7.During postmortem no tattoo is visible, but according to deceased family, there was a tattoo present. What evidence can indicate the same?
- ALymph node✓ Correct answer
- BSurrounding subcutaneous tissue
- CAdipose tissue
- DAdjacent skin
Q8.Cheiloscopy is the study of
- ALip prints✓ Correct answer
- BFoot prints
- CBite marks
- DFinger prints
Q9.Fingerprinting (FINDER) involves recording prints of 8 fingers. Which finger pair is excluded?
- ARing finger
- BThumb✓ Correct answer
- CLittle finger
- DMiddle finger
Q10.All of these stains are used in tattooing except:
- AOsmium blue✓ Correct answer
- BPrussian blue
- CVermillion
- DIndia ink
Answer key
Q1: A. Fingerprint; Q2: C. Absorption elusion; Q3: C. India; Q4: D. lymph Nodes; Q5: A. Theory of exchange; Q6: B. Dactylography; Q7: A. Lymph node; Q8: A. Lip prints; Q9: B. Thumb; Q10: A. Osmium blue.
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- Determination of Sex, Race and Stature
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- Medical Ethics, Consent and Professional Negligence
- Diagnosis of Death and Postmortem Changes
- Conduct of the Medicolegal Autopsy
- Blunt and Sharp Force Mechanical Injuries
- Injuries by Body Region
- Burns, Scalds and Cold Injuries
- Firearm and Explosive Blast Wounds
- Hanging, Strangulation and Other Mechanical Asphyxia
- Drowning
- Sexual Assault and Criminal Abortion
- Child Abuse, Infanticide and Starvation Deaths
- General Principles of Poisoning
- Poisoning by Organophosphorus Compounds
- Corrosive Agents and Asphyxiant Gases
- Ethanol and Methanol Poisoning
- Metallic and Non-Metallic Inorganic Irritants
- Plant and Animal Organic Irritant Poisons
- CNS Poisons: Narcotics and Deliriants