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1. a. Manner of death and cause of death: Manner of death is more generic, in terms of natural death, accidental death, homicide, etc., but cause of death is more specific and refers to things like drowning, hanging, suffocation, gunshot, etc.

b. Cause of death and mechanism of death: cause of death refers to the method by which the person died, mechanism of death refers to the actual thing as a result of the cause of death that ended the life of the person, like blood loss, cessation of brain function, etc.

c. larva and pupa: the larva stage comes earlier than the pupa stage

d. rigor mortis and livor mortis: rigor mortis is the relaxing of the muscles and stiffening because of buildup of calcium after death, but livor mortis is the pooling of blood in the body after death as a result of the heart not pumping blood

e. autolysis and decomposition: Decomposition is the generic breaking down of the body, but autolysis is the spontaneous breakdown of cells self-destructing