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scientific tests or techniques used in connection with the detection of crime
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When measuring a maggot you use?
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Something without a heartbeat
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cold-blooded animal.
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Temperature readings are normally where`
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the science that deals with the origins, physical and cultural development, biological characteristics, and social customs and beliefs of humankind.
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This plays an important tool in analyzing insect evidence from a corpse.
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a class of individuals having some common characteristics or qualities; distinct sort or kind.
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Gives clues (from insects) about the crime and death dates
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an insect in the nonfeeding, usually immobile, transformation stage between the larva and the imago.
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Apply their knowledge of entomology to provide information for criminal investigations
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the deposition of lime or insoluble salts of calcium and magnesium, as in a tissue.
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A common small insect that lives in beds
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an act of reconstructing.
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The time between death and the discovery of the body
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a profound change in form from one stage to the next in the life history of an organism
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F - 32 x (5/9)
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How many stages are there?
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What stage is when blow flies and flesh flies are first to be there?
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the act or process of decomposing.
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the place at which two things, or separate parts of one thing, are joined or united, either rigidly or in such a way as to permit motion; juncture.
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Attracted to dead bodies and often arrive within minutes of death
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a dead body, especially a human body to be dissected; corpse.
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the roundish reproductive body produced by the female of certain animals, as birds and most reptiles, consisting of an ovum and its envelope of albumen, jelly, membranes, egg case, or shell, according to species.
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to convert into a fossil; replace organic with mineral substances in the remains of an organism.
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C x (9/5) + 32
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the bones of a human or an animal considered as a whole, together forming the framework of the body.
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The collection and preservation of bugs counts as
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in court of evidence insect related is called?