Bugs, bones and botany
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What animal makes a good model for human decomposition? Because it has about the same size ____ as humans. it has little _____. eat the same food groups, so same ____ ____.
Pigs torso hair gut bacteria
The first bug to feast on human remains is ___.
magots
By counting the number of ____ a plant that was growing through a human skull as we can determine ______.
rings how long the skull has been there
When a body is dragged from one location to another location we can find some ____ ____ from the crime scene.
plant residues
what are the 2 categories of firensic botany?
plants fragments you can see those you cant
which bone is used by forensic anthropologists to deterine sex of the victim? And for their stature?
plevic bone limb bones, femur and tibia
Hair tell you where one_____ Bones tell you where one______ Teeth tell you where one _______ Fingernails tell you where one ______
has been last few weeks had been last 15 years grew up has been last months
To find out the role of drugs in death we collect ___, ___ and ___ such as ____
blood urine tissues (liver)