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Allie Gruber Crime Scene Chemistry Miller- Period 3 January 27, 2009

A.  Cause of death indicates the immediate reason someone dies such as gunshot or poison. Manor of death is the way someone can die as identified by either: natural, suicide, homicide, accidental or undetermined. B.  Mechanism of death differs from cause of death because it is a description of how the person dies such as bleeding to death or heart failure while the cause of death is the immediate reaction in which they were killed. C.  Larva is the immature form of an animal that undergoes metamorphosis such as a maggot and pupa is the stage in an insect’s life when the larva forms a capsule around itself and changes into an adult form. D.  Rigor mortis is the condition immediately following death when all muscles relax and become rigid. Livor mortis is determined when the heart stops pumping and the blood begins to settle in parts of the body closest to the ground with helps investigators tell if the body has been moved or not. E.  Autolysis is when the cells in the body self-combust and decomposition is the result of this that causes the body to decay.
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