Quiz____?
What does a forensic entomologist study? -
Answer✓✓
insect types and activity to estimate time since the death
Quiz____?
Kim was driving home from work and got into a car crash. She sustained injuries to her
abdomen and lost an excessive amount of blood. Paramedics were unable to get there in
time to complete a blood transfusion and she died.
What was her cause, mechanism, and manner of death? -
Answer✓✓
Blood loss
accident
abdomen injuries
Quiz____?
John had advanced coronary artery disease. He had a heart attack which threw his heart
into an arrhythmia. The doctors were unable to correct for it and he passed away....
What were his cause, mechanism, and manner of death? -
Answer✓✓
natural
heart attack
arrhythmia
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, Quiz____?
Forensic science is the application of science to: -
Answer✓✓
both criminal and civil laws
Quiz____?
Who developed the principle of whenever 2 objects come into contact with one another,
materials are exchanged between them? -
Answer✓✓
Edmond Locard
Quiz____?
Who developed a system of personal identification for forensic science? -
Answer✓✓
All of the above
Quiz____?
Who was the first suspect to be cleared of a crime by DNA evidence? -
Answer✓✓
Richard Buckland
Quiz____?
A medical examiner is responsible for which of the following cases: -
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, Answer✓✓
An elderly person dies of natural causes in a nursing home
An in-custody death of a 26 year-old, otherwise healthy male
Quiz____?
Forensic pathologists: -
Answer✓✓
Are most often employed as medical examiners
Quiz____?
Mechanism of death is: -
Answer✓✓
The physiological effects of the injury or disease that caused death
Quiz____?
A single mechanism of death can be produced from a variety of causes of death -
Answer✓✓
True
Quiz____?
Janet was riding her bike and was hit by an oncoming vehicle whose driver did not see the
bike. She sustained injuries to her cranium from her head contacting the pavement. The
impact resulted in severe hemorrhaging to the cerebral cortex which resulted in her
untimely death.
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