Forensic Science #2

What do you call someone who studies insects and decomposition?

• forensic entomologist

• forensic serologist

• forensic anthropologist

• forensic toxicologist

Which of the following best describes rigor mortis?

• It is the pooling of blood after deaath

• It is the stiffening of muscles after death

• It is the cooling of the body after death

Which muscles experience rigor FIRST?

• Small
• Large
• All muscles start rigor at the same time

 Rate of cooling helps in determining 

• Manner of death
• Time of death
• Place of death
• Cause of death

Algor mortis means roughly: 

• death heat and describes the temperature gain in a corpse.
• death heat and describes the temperature loss in a corpse.
• death chill and describes the temperature loss in a corpse.
• None of these choices.

What is the MOST common manner of death?

• homicide
• accidental
• undetermined
• natural

What is livor mortis essentially?

• death color
• death stiffness
• death temperature

How does temperature have an effect on insect evidence? 

• temp. does not effect insect evidence 
• high temp. speeds up insect's life cycle 
• low temp. speeds up insect's life cycle 

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Which of the following is not a common factor that could have an effect on insect evidence? 

• where the body was located 
• the weather conditions 
• age the person was when they died 
• drugs or poisons present 

In general, the older the insects around the dead body are....

• the longer the body has been dead
• the less time the body has been dead
• the more blood the body lost 
• the hotter the temp. around the body is