ASM 275 PRACTICE EXAM SHEET 2025/2026
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔anterior/posterior - ✔✔toward the front and back of the body
✔✔medial/lateral - ✔✔toward the midline/away from the midline
✔✔proximal/distal - ✔✔towards the axial skeleton, away from the axial skeleton
✔✔Diaphysis - ✔✔shaft of a long bone, primary source of ossification
✔✔Epiphysis - ✔✔secondary ossification center
✔✔Metaphysis (long bone) - ✔✔Area where the epiphysis and diaphysis meet, end of
bone.
✔✔Diploe or trabecular bone - ✔✔spongy bone
✔✔cortical bone - ✔✔hard, dense, strong bone that forms the outer layer of bone; also
called compact bone
✔✔Datum - ✔✔A reference point at a scene from which measurements are taken
✔✔clandestine graves - ✔✔discreet and hidden graves
✔✔how to estimate postmortem interval (time since death) - ✔✔rigor, algot, and livor
mortis if within 48 hrs
✔✔Forensic Taphonomy - ✔✔interpretation of primarily outdoor death scenes and
postmortem processes
✔✔Forensic Etymology - ✔✔the study of insects at a crime scene- stages of blow fly
(1st to decompose body) and other bugs that consume body
✔✔Putrification - ✔✔Bacteria inside body consumes it.
✔✔Autolysis - ✔✔Degeneration of body tissues by digestive fluids
✔✔rigor mortis - ✔✔the stiffening of the body after death, apparent 1-2hrs after,
releases between 24-48hrs
✔✔Algor Mortis - ✔✔The cooling of the body after death. 2 degrees celsius within 1st
hour, 1 degree celsius every hour after.
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔anterior/posterior - ✔✔toward the front and back of the body
✔✔medial/lateral - ✔✔toward the midline/away from the midline
✔✔proximal/distal - ✔✔towards the axial skeleton, away from the axial skeleton
✔✔Diaphysis - ✔✔shaft of a long bone, primary source of ossification
✔✔Epiphysis - ✔✔secondary ossification center
✔✔Metaphysis (long bone) - ✔✔Area where the epiphysis and diaphysis meet, end of
bone.
✔✔Diploe or trabecular bone - ✔✔spongy bone
✔✔cortical bone - ✔✔hard, dense, strong bone that forms the outer layer of bone; also
called compact bone
✔✔Datum - ✔✔A reference point at a scene from which measurements are taken
✔✔clandestine graves - ✔✔discreet and hidden graves
✔✔how to estimate postmortem interval (time since death) - ✔✔rigor, algot, and livor
mortis if within 48 hrs
✔✔Forensic Taphonomy - ✔✔interpretation of primarily outdoor death scenes and
postmortem processes
✔✔Forensic Etymology - ✔✔the study of insects at a crime scene- stages of blow fly
(1st to decompose body) and other bugs that consume body
✔✔Putrification - ✔✔Bacteria inside body consumes it.
✔✔Autolysis - ✔✔Degeneration of body tissues by digestive fluids
✔✔rigor mortis - ✔✔the stiffening of the body after death, apparent 1-2hrs after,
releases between 24-48hrs
✔✔Algor Mortis - ✔✔The cooling of the body after death. 2 degrees celsius within 1st
hour, 1 degree celsius every hour after.
