HOSA Forensic Science Questions and Answers
Criminalistics - -Analysis of physical Lipophilic chemials - -Stored in fat cells,
evidence released into blood stream
Forensic anthropology - -Analysis of bodily Plasma protein chemicals - -Released
remains slowly into cells
Forensic entomology - -Analysis of insects Fluoride, lead, and strontium chemicals - -
on dead bodies to determine time of death Stored in bone
Pharmacologist - -Studies natural and Xenobiotics - -Chemicals foreign to the
synthetic chemicals body
Carcinogens - -Causes cancers Chemical excretion by means of - -Feces,
sweat, saliva, breast milk, nails, and hair
Toxicologist - -Studies toxic effects of
chemicals Enterohepatic circulation - -Process
between liver, small intestine, and bile
Base principle of toxicology - -Chemicals
safe in small dosages become deadly in high A drug's half life - -Time in which drug
dosages decreases by 50% in blood
Dose-response tests - -Effects of drugs at Agonist drugs - -Drugs that cause effects
different dosages for the relationship between
dose and effect
Antagonist drugs - -Drugs that block effects
Pharmacodynamics - -Mechanisms that
cause physiological and pathological changes Immediate cause of death - -Body problem
that caused death
Pharmokinetics - -How the chemical is
absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and excreted Proximate cause of death - -What led to
the immediate cause of death
Drugs may enter the body by - -Ingestion,
inhalation, injection, skin application, suppository Manner of death - -Homicide, suicide,
natural, accident, undetermined
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Criminalistics - -Analysis of physical Lipophilic chemials - -Stored in fat cells,
evidence released into blood stream
Forensic anthropology - -Analysis of bodily Plasma protein chemicals - -Released
remains slowly into cells
Forensic entomology - -Analysis of insects Fluoride, lead, and strontium chemicals - -
on dead bodies to determine time of death Stored in bone
Pharmacologist - -Studies natural and Xenobiotics - -Chemicals foreign to the
synthetic chemicals body
Carcinogens - -Causes cancers Chemical excretion by means of - -Feces,
sweat, saliva, breast milk, nails, and hair
Toxicologist - -Studies toxic effects of
chemicals Enterohepatic circulation - -Process
between liver, small intestine, and bile
Base principle of toxicology - -Chemicals
safe in small dosages become deadly in high A drug's half life - -Time in which drug
dosages decreases by 50% in blood
Dose-response tests - -Effects of drugs at Agonist drugs - -Drugs that cause effects
different dosages for the relationship between
dose and effect
Antagonist drugs - -Drugs that block effects
Pharmacodynamics - -Mechanisms that
cause physiological and pathological changes Immediate cause of death - -Body problem
that caused death
Pharmokinetics - -How the chemical is
absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and excreted Proximate cause of death - -What led to
the immediate cause of death
Drugs may enter the body by - -Ingestion,
inhalation, injection, skin application, suppository Manner of death - -Homicide, suicide,
natural, accident, undetermined
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