Forensics

A specialized examiner of human skeletal remains for law enforcement.

(They help with the recovery of the remains, identifying the remains, interpreting trauma, and estimating the time of death.)

• forensics

• forensic anthropologist

• crime scene

• approach the scene

• autopsy

The notes that presents the full story of what the investigator saw and any impressions the evidence gave that investigator.

• secure and protect the scene

• initiate preliminary survey

• prepare a narrative of the scene

• crime scene

When evidence can only be associated with a group and never with a single source, that evidence is said to possess:

• Class categories

• Class characteristics

• Group categories

• Group characteristics

Which scale pattern identifies human hair?

• Imbricate

• Coronal

• Spinous

• None of these

The most important structure for the individualization of hair (identity).

• Medulla

• Cuticle

• Cortex

• Follicle

We know hair is from a human if…

• The medullary index is 0.5 or greater           

• The medullary index is 0.33 or less

• The cuticle is coronal

• The medulla is fragmented

trace evidence

• small but measurable amounts of physical or biological material found at crime scene

• the tough outer covering of a hair composed of overlapping scales

• the centrel core of a hair fiber

• the actively growing root or base of hair containing DNA and living cells

crown-like scales pattern which are commonly found in hairs of small rodents and dogs.

• Coronal Pattern

• Spinous Pattern

• Imbricate Pattern

Which scale pattern is indicated?

• Coronal

• Spinous

• Imbricate

• None of these

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

The following medulla pattern is called

• fragmented 

• continuous

• interrupted