FIS 201 – Exam 2 Study Guide (Mohr, WVU)
What is the usual name for the area where material from the grave and surrounding area is
sifted through to reveal human remains, artifacts, fibers, and associated insects? - ANS✔✔
Screening Area
What animal's paws are notoriously similar to human hands and feet? - ANS✔✔ Bear
What is the dental formula for a normal human child? - ANS✔✔ 2.1.2.
What is the most reliable and specific indicator of the age of a adult skeletal remains? - ANS✔✔
Public Symphisis
Approximately how many bones does the adult human skeleton have? (just the number, please)
- ANS✔✔ 206
What is/are skeletal markers typically associated with a female identity? - ANS✔✔ U shaped
pubic angle
_________ is defined as the ability to estimate stature based on the proportional relationships
between sizes of body parts? - ANS✔✔ Allometry
The number of ribs in an adult depends on whether the person is male or female. - ANS✔✔
False
A trait that can either be described as present or absent is a metric trait. - ANS✔✔ False
What are the first insects usually attracted to remains? - ANS✔✔ Flies
, All other things being equal, which environment condition would have little impact on the rate
of insect development? - ANS✔✔ Body position
Entomology can be used to estimate the minimum elapsed time since death from hours after
death to up to a year or sometimes more. - ANS✔✔ True
Insects colonize humans differently than they colonize dead animals - ANS✔✔ False
The infestation of living human or other vertebrate animals with dipteran larvae is called
___________. - ANS✔✔ Myaisis
What is one way that insects can indicate that an animal was killed by a hunter as opposed to
disease or illness? - ANS✔✔ Finding many larger, older maggots in locations far from natural
orifices
Forensic serology can be defined as the examination and analysis of... - ANS✔✔ Bodily Fluids
Which type of blood cells are needed for DNA typing? - ANS✔✔ White Blood Cells
What is not true about seminal acid phosphatase (SAP)? - ANS✔✔ SAP is found exclusively in
seminal fluid.
A presumptive test for blood can result in a false positive from... - ANS✔✔ Plant
material/vegetable peroxidases, Chemical oxidants, and Materials of animal origin.
What are the drawbacks of the starch-iodine test? - ANS✔✔ Common proteins such as albumin
can false positive results, and It does not efficiently or accurately locate stains on evidence.
What is the usual name for the area where material from the grave and surrounding area is
sifted through to reveal human remains, artifacts, fibers, and associated insects? - ANS✔✔
Screening Area
What animal's paws are notoriously similar to human hands and feet? - ANS✔✔ Bear
What is the dental formula for a normal human child? - ANS✔✔ 2.1.2.
What is the most reliable and specific indicator of the age of a adult skeletal remains? - ANS✔✔
Public Symphisis
Approximately how many bones does the adult human skeleton have? (just the number, please)
- ANS✔✔ 206
What is/are skeletal markers typically associated with a female identity? - ANS✔✔ U shaped
pubic angle
_________ is defined as the ability to estimate stature based on the proportional relationships
between sizes of body parts? - ANS✔✔ Allometry
The number of ribs in an adult depends on whether the person is male or female. - ANS✔✔
False
A trait that can either be described as present or absent is a metric trait. - ANS✔✔ False
What are the first insects usually attracted to remains? - ANS✔✔ Flies
, All other things being equal, which environment condition would have little impact on the rate
of insect development? - ANS✔✔ Body position
Entomology can be used to estimate the minimum elapsed time since death from hours after
death to up to a year or sometimes more. - ANS✔✔ True
Insects colonize humans differently than they colonize dead animals - ANS✔✔ False
The infestation of living human or other vertebrate animals with dipteran larvae is called
___________. - ANS✔✔ Myaisis
What is one way that insects can indicate that an animal was killed by a hunter as opposed to
disease or illness? - ANS✔✔ Finding many larger, older maggots in locations far from natural
orifices
Forensic serology can be defined as the examination and analysis of... - ANS✔✔ Bodily Fluids
Which type of blood cells are needed for DNA typing? - ANS✔✔ White Blood Cells
What is not true about seminal acid phosphatase (SAP)? - ANS✔✔ SAP is found exclusively in
seminal fluid.
A presumptive test for blood can result in a false positive from... - ANS✔✔ Plant
material/vegetable peroxidases, Chemical oxidants, and Materials of animal origin.
What are the drawbacks of the starch-iodine test? - ANS✔✔ Common proteins such as albumin
can false positive results, and It does not efficiently or accurately locate stains on evidence.
