This system is comprised of the nasal cavity, pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, lungs and diaphragm.
What is the respiratory system?
100
This invention aided in definitively determining death.
What is the stethoscope?
100
The subunits of nucleic acids.
What are nucleotides?
100
The reason teeth can be used to identify someone.
They're unique to individuals.
200
These factors may affect the development of insects.
What are weather, temperature, method of disposal (if corpse is wrapped in a tarp for example)?
200
This system is responsible for the secretion of hormones.
What is endocrine system?
200
A possible mechanism of death if the cause of death was a gun shot wound to the chest
What is exsanguination?
200
These are used to cut DNA in very specific plaindromic regions.
What are restriction enzymes?
200
The latin word from which forensics is derived meaning of or about the forum.
Remember in Roman times people went to the "forum" to be tried for a crime.
What is forensis?
300
PMI stands for this.
What is post mortem interval?
300
The main constituents of the nervous system.
What are the brain and spinal cord?
300
Natural, Accidental, Homocidal, and Suicidal
What are the four manners of death?
300
This type of DNA polymerase is used in PCR because it is thermo-stable
What is Taq Polymerase?
300
The principal that says every contact leaves a trace.
What is the Locard Exchange Principal?
400
In the fly life cycle, the stage of metamorphosis in which there are three instars.
What is larval stage? (maggots)
400
In general, with respect to the heart, arteries carry blood in this direction.
What is away from the heart?
400
The first step in performing an autopsy.
What is an external exam?
400
On an electrophoresis gel there are three bands of DNA, their sizes are 500 bp, 5000 bp, and 880 bp. Which band will be at the bottom?
The piece that is 500 bp.
400
The renowned criminal that was finally convicted using bite mark analysis.
Who is Ted Bundy?
500
There are two types of flies (some with crumpled wings), two sizes of maggots of the same species, and fly eggs at a crime scene. The flies arrive within ten minutes, it takes fly eggs 9 days to develop into maggots and 16 days to develop into flies. What is the PMI?
The PMI is 16 days because there are flies present with crumpled wings so you know they developed at the site instead of flying there.
500
This system provides structural support.
What is the skeletal system?
500
The term for the settling of blood. Analysis of this can help determine if the body was moved after death.
What is lividty?
500
The name for the regions of DNA forensic scientists use to identify some one using their DNA.
What are polymorphisms?
500
The bones that can be measured to estimate someone's height.