PřF:Bi5402 Dermatoglyphics - Course Information
Bi5402 Dermatoglyphics
Faculty of ScienceAutumn 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching - Teacher(s)
- doc. RNDr. Miroslav Králík, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Adela Hupková (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Karolína Kupková (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- doc. RNDr. Miroslav Králík, Ph.D.
Department of Anthropology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Miroslav Králík, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Anthropology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science - Timetable
- Mon 15:00–16:50 Bp1,01007
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Anthropology (programme PřF, B-ANT)
- Human Biology (programme PřF, B-EMB)
- Special Biology (programme PřF, B-EXB, specialization Antropobiology and Antropogenetics)
- Course objectives
- The course aims to familiarize students with the history, methods and applications of dermatoglyphics and to teach them to analyze human fingerprints and palmprints.
- Learning outcomes
- At the end of the course the student should be able to:
describe the characteristics of epidermal ridges and dermatoglyphics;
define and use the methods of fingerprinting; explain the ontogenesis, phylogenesis and function of papillary terrain (friction skin);
analyze the relation of dermatoglyphic features to other biological properties of the organism;
specify the application of fingerprints in medicine, forensic science, biometrics and paleodermatoglyphics;
analyze fingerprints and palm prints by standard dermatoglyphic methods using modern technical and computer means - Syllabus
- Theoretical block: Overview of dermatoglyphics (theory and methods)
- 1. Introduction, morphology, histology, development and function of the friction skin (papillary terrain),definition of dermatoglyphics
- 2. History of dermatoglyphics, basic dermatoglyphics terminology, dermatoglyphics of fingeprints
- 3. Dermatoglyphics of palmprints and footprints
- 4. Variability of dermatoglyphic features (side, sex populational etc.)
- 5. Heredity of dermatoglyphic features, relationships between dermatoglyphics and diseases, dermatoglyphics as prenatal markers;
- 6. Police fingerprinting (dactyloscopy), biometrics, paleodermatoglyphics
- Practical block: Practice in dermatoglyphics: recording of fingerprints and dermatoglyphic analysis in the Dermatoglyphix software.
- 7. Recording of fingerprints and palmprints by means of the traditional ink method
- 8. Computer program Dermatoglyphix, practicing dermatoglyphic analysis on “dry run” fingerprints and palmprints
- 9. Dermatoglyphic analysis of recorded fingerprints
- 10. Individual indexes and analysis of epidermal ridge breadth
- 11. Dermatoglyphic analysis of recorded palmprints
- 12. Test
- Literature
- Králík M., Klíma O., Polcerová L. (v přípravě): Dermatoglyphix 2.0. Computer program for traditional and new dermatoglyphic analysis. Brno: Masaryk University.
- Králík M., Polcerová L., Klíma O., eds.(v přípravě): Dermatoglyfika. Ústav antropologie, Přírodovědecká Fakulta, Masarykova Univerzita.
- Králík M., Novotný V. (2003): Epidermal ridge breadth: an indicator of age and sex in paleodermatoglyphics. Variability and Evolution, 11: 530.
- Pospíšil M.F. (1974): Základy dermatoglyfiky. Prírodovedecká fakulta Univerzity Komenského, Bratislava.
- Teaching methods
- Within the course the student learn in form of practical training with comments and supervision by the lector.
- Assessment methods
- Credit at the end of the course is awarded for practical knowledge presented in protocols on specified areas of practical training. The final evaluation is based on the practical protocols and test.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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