A Bloody Business
Bring Out Your Dead
Potent Potables
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All Mixed Up
100
This blood type is the universal recipient
What is AB+?
100
A postmortem examination to determine cause of death
What is an autopsy?
100
What Mr. Elder's class refrigerator smells like
What is death?
100
A small spike projecting off of a main blood drop
What is a spine?
100
The responsibility of the first police officer to arrive at a crime scene
What is securing the scene?
200
These cells are "bags of hemoglobin" and carry oxygen
What are RBCs?
200
A forensic death investigator who is an elected official and does not necessarily have any medical training
What is a coroner?
200
Tests used at a crime scene to determine whether something might be blood
What are presumptive tests?
200
A place where the crime didn't occur, but more evidence can be found
What is a secondary crime scene?
200
Trigonometric function used to calculate the angle of impact of a blood droplet
What is the arcsine (or inverse sine)?
300
This type of blood spatter is characterized by droplet diameters between 1 and 4 mm
What is high-velocity blood spatter?
300
Postmortem change that peaks at 12 hours after death
What is rigor mortis
300
Tiny blood drops adjacent to a larger one
What are satellites?
300
Expensive natural fiber made from the cocoons of a type of caterpillar
What is silk?
300
Blood cells responsible for fighting infections
What are WBCs?
400
Term indicating the location of blood spatter-producing blows
What is the point of convergence?
400
The name for the process in which bacteria digest a body
What is putrefaction
400
After 8-10 days, a decomposing corpse does this
What is bursting?
400
Doctor from a suburb of Cleveland who was exonerated for the murder of his wife due to new blood spatter and DNA analysis
Who is Sam Sheppard?
400
The four steps of the external portion of an autopsy
What are photograph; collect physical evidence;, undress and examine; and wash, weigh, and measure?
500
The proteins on red blood cells that determine blood type
What are antigens?
500
Process studied at the "Body Farm"
What is decomposition?
500
Latin for "of death"
What is mortis?
500
One of seven that involves taking pictures of the crime scene
What is "seeing the scene"?
500
Phenomenon in which people don't notice that a person talking to them is not the one who originally asked for directions.
What is change blindness?
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