The earliest forensic scientists were physicians who were called upon to give an opinion as to the cause of death in individuals. ... The role of ethyl alcohol in death is rarely due to its direct toxic effects but to its indirect role in accidents. The circumstances of death in approximately twenty percent of the population require a thorough medical-legal investigation. ... It is a large field including identifying the decedent, determining time of death, autopsies, and determining the cause of death. It requires a lot of patience and concentration to make sure you find every piece of eviden...

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Therefore, the scratch marks on the bullet match the scratch marks in the barrel of the gun that fired it, to the exclusion of all other weapons."3 This action is tested in a lab by firing a bullet using the weapon that is thought to be from the crime scene. The test bullet is compared to a bullet found at the crime scene under a comparison microscope. ... Mental disorder is a clinically significant behavior or psychological syndrome or pattern that is associated with present distress or disability or with a significantly increased risk of suffering death, pain or disability or important ...

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Once of the most crucial facts to determine is time of death. ... Within a half-hour after death, lividity occurs. ... Whiteness is not possible more than five hours after death. ... The scent of death attracts insects as naturally as it repels humans. ... These are two metals that come from the gun and thanks to the gunshot residue test, it is easy to just stroke cotton swabs with nitric acid on the webbing between the thumb and trigger finger. ...

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DNA: Mysteries and Miracles In the year of 2000, President Bill Clinton stood before the nation and made an announcement that was 47 years in the making; the preliminary draft of the Human Genome Project was complete. Indeed, we have come a long way since the influential discovery made by Jame...

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"We improve our favourite plants and animals "and how few they are "gradually by selective breeding; now a new and better peach, now a seedless grape, now a sweeter and larger flower, now a more convenient breed of cattle. We improve them gradually, because our ideals are vague and tentative and our knowledge is very limited; because Nature, too, is shy and slow in our clumsy hands- (26). H.G. Wells wrote those words in his novel The Time Machine in 1895; he recognized man's ability to alter other organisms; however, at that time it was a gradual, slow, and clumsy process. To...

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UniversityNumber; 0212516 Human Molecular Diseases Abstract The essay concentrates on the single gene defects, looking initially at the types of mutations which effect genes and then moving on to the three major groups of these disorders; autosomal recessive, autosomal dominant and sex-linked. Each of these groups accompanied by at least one example and within the autosomal recessive disorders, haemoglobinopathies are discussed. There is then a brief discussion about the molecular basis of some cancers and the other groups of human molecular diseases. Human Molecular Diseases Huma...

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