Death+Chapter+Questions+KR

1. A) The manor of death is is how the person was killed. Was it natural or was the person murdered. The cause of death is what actully caused the person to die, a stab or natural causes exc..

B) The mechanism of death, is what specific organ caused the death, like did there heart fail exc..

C) Larva is the earlier stages of blowfly, and the pupa is when the larva becomes immobile and darker.

D) Liver mortis is the settling of blood in the lower part of the body, and Rigor mortis the stiffening of the body

E) Autolysis is a process by which a biological cell self-destructs, and decomposition is when the whole body slowly decomposes.

2. The Bacteria in the deer, start to feed on the insides of the deer after death, they then emit gases which make the deers stomach larger

3. They could present soil samples from where the body is, and then soil samples from where the body was found

4. No, the rigor mortis can just be starting, because it starts in the face and the neck and goes down to the legs later.

5. Depending on the stage of the larva you can tell the time of death. The blow fly lays its eggs right after death, and the larva develop.