Questions+EP

1. explain the similarities and differences of each: a. manner of death and cause of death Manner and cause of death means how they would have died such as natural causes, accidental deaths, etc. manner of death is how it looked and cause of death is how it happened.

b. Cause of death and mechanism of death Cause of death is the reason for the persons death and mechanism of death is the specific body failure that leads to death. they both are meanings of death.

c. Larva and Pupa Larva is an animal that undergoes metamorphosis and pupa is the stage in life where the animal is about to hit the larva stage before becoming an adult. they both have to deal with animals and are related to each.

d. Rigor mortis and livor mortis Rigor mortis is the stiffness of the skeleton after death and livor mortis deals with the blood and tissue after death. Both deal within the body.

e. Autolysis and decomposition Autolysis is the breakdown of cells and decomposition is the rotting and breaking down in general. Both dal with breaking down.

2. The bacteria within the deer is trying to get out therefore making the deer swell. Rigor mortis do to the stiffness of the animal.

3. Evidence of dirt on the body. Possition of the body. The smell of the body. Algor mortis the temperature of the body and how much heat it would have in it.

4. No because rigor mortis can't be seen in the first two hours and after 48 hours therefore it would be hard to determine th time of death between those hours if using rigor mortis.

5. Eggs are the first ones to attach to the dead animal. then the first stages of larva form on the animal. it will then form a pupa which then grows into an adult. Tiny wasps are the ones that come and lay there eggs. Blow flies would be the first to arrive and last to arrive would be mites and beatles.