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Chapter 9 Problems

This document contains the assigned homework questions from Chapter Nine of Professor James T. Spencer's course "Introduction to Forensic Science". The questions cover topics in forensic anthropology including determining sex, age, and ancestry from skeletal remains; estimating stature, weight, and cause of death; and identifying types of trauma. The document also includes questions about bone structure, composition, and differentiation between human and non-human bones.

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Chapter 9 Problems

This document contains the assigned homework questions from Chapter Nine of Professor James T. Spencer's course "Introduction to Forensic Science". The questions cover topics in forensic anthropology including determining sex, age, and ancestry from skeletal remains; estimating stature, weight, and cause of death; and identifying types of trauma. The document also includes questions about bone structure, composition, and differentiation between human and non-human bones.

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UC CHE 113 “INTRODUCTION TO FORENSIC SCIENCE”

CHAPTER NINE: Assigned Homework Materials


Professor James T. Spencer

QUESTIONS FOR FURTHER PRACTICE AND MASTERY


9.1. Forensic anthropology involves the application to legal questions of the data, theory, and
methods of which subdiscipline of anthropology?
9.2. All of the following are examples of typical anthropological physical evidence from a human
burial EXCEPT: (a) decomposing human remains, (b) clothing, (c) perimortem trauma (e.g.,
gunshot wounds, knife marks), (d) handwriting, (e) projectile.
9.3. Perimortem trauma refers to injuries sustained .
9.4. What type of information typically can be
determined by a forensic anthropologist when
examining a complete set of skeletal remains?

9.5. How can information about the sex of a decendent


be gained from examination of a person's pelvis
bones?
9.6. Can the pubic symphysis be used for sex
determination?
9.7. Is the pelvis shown at right from a male or female?

9.8. The bone shown in the box in the picture at right is


the .
9.9. How can each of the following be estimated for a decedent from skeletal remains? (a) stature,
(b) sex, (c) age, (d) occupation, (e) ancestry, (f) weight,
(g) cause of death.
9.10. Describe what is meant by taphonomy and how it is a
part of a forensic investigation.
9.11. Give three examples of blunt force trauma.
9.12. Give three examples of sharp force trauma.
9.13. Describe how the hyoid bone can give evidence of a
cause of death.
9.14. A mandible was found with all deciduous teeth except
for the eruption of a lower second molar. Using the
data in Figure 9.1.21, what would you estimate as the
age at death for this person? .
9.15. What is forensic anthropology?
9.16. What is responsible for giving bones their strength and
rigidity?
9.17. What is the most abundant protein in the body?
9.18. What property does collagen given to bone?
9.19. What is cortical bone?
9.20. How does the interior material of bone differ from the outer material?
9.21. What is the difference between a tendon and a ligament?
9.22. What methods are used to determine if an unknown object is a bone?
Introduction to Forensic Science Page II.9.1.1 Draft 8/5/18 J. T. Spencer
9.23. How is a bone determined to be human?
9.24. What is a biological profile? Does it help to establish the identity of the remains?

Introduction to Forensic Science Page II.9.1.2 Draft 8/5/18 J. T. Spencer

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