Forensic science is the application of scientific techniques in collecting and analyzing physical evidence in criminal cases."1 Forensic science has really advanced over the years. The first recorded application of medical knowledge to the solution of a crime was in a Chinese book, His Duan Yu (the washing away of wrongs), written in 1248. It contains a description of how to distinguish drowning and strangulation. These days, we have ways of telling whether the person was drowned intentionally or not and if their strangulation was accidental or a murder. There are many branches to the world...

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Even the greatest crime investigator in history relied on the only true witness "evidence "to solve a crime. Although fictitious, Sherlock Holmes' techniques of intense observation and logical application of detail inspire the basis of solving any crime. Those skills, added to today's growing techno...

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biology Living things make up the world as we know it. Living things are involved in our life constantly, seeing that we are alive. There are five characteristics that are common to all living things. Living things are made up of one or more cells. Each cell is made up of living matter and is se...

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