Saturday, March 26, 2016

What are the scientific topics from Kathy Reich's Grave Secrets by chapter

Grave Secrets scientific topics for class discussion

Chapter 1: excavating a grave site not recently deceased.
                        Body locations: proximal, distal, anterior, posterior

Chapter 2 metric system
            What is on the box from the FAFG and why is that important

Chapter 3: How does a septic tank work
            What are actinomycetes?

Chapter 4: How did she collect and record the materials from the septic tank?

Chapter 5: mapping disappearance of girls’, home, work, last seen.

Chapter 6: Epiphyseal line, heart shaped inlet of pelvis
            Broad shallow sciatic notch
            Round orbits
            Broad check
            Parabolic upper palate
            Incisors fall out more easily due to only one root
            Pet hair in cuff
            What do you think she found as species at the end of examining the clothing

Chapter 7: pictures, sealed vials initialed the labels

Chapter 8: cell division and differentiation, fetal development

Chapter 9:  Planck’s constant

Chapter 10: molars in eruption, hair analysis

Chapter 11: recently deceased land crime scene
Adrenaline
            Ligaments hold bones together
            How can they tell animal activity pulled the skull away rather than a violent                                    decapitation?
            Phalanges
            Beetles & Millipeds
            Hyoid: breaks frequently during strangulation
            Mummification
            Dental ID
            Sifting topsoil

Chapter 12: autopsy
            Weighing of tissue
            Sawing of bone

Chapter 13:  nada

Chapter 14: opacity
            CAT scan
            Ethmoid

Chapter 15: double helix
            Cutting of chest for autopsy
            Bone cutting by chain saw L shaped grooves

Chapter 16, 17, 18 : nada

Chapter 19: polymorphic, mitochondrial DNA, DNA structure, sugars, phosphates, polymerase chain reaction, genome, epithelial, buccal
Pupil response to pain killers

Chapter 20: Embryonic

Chapter 21: nada

Chapter 22: facial reconstruction

Chapter 23: nada

Chapter 24:  Stem cells, germ cells, germ layers, endoderm, mesoderm, ectoderm, pluripotent, blastocyst

Chapter 25 and 26: nada

Chapter 27: Mitosis and Meiosis
                        IVF
                        Supine

Chapter 28, 29 & 30: nada



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