Forensic Anthropology And Odontology

Question 1

What does forensic anthropology deal with?

Answer 1

Ideology, anatomy metrics and radio imaging.

Question 2

How can you differentiate sex from bone structure?

Answer 2

Femur and radius heads.

Question 3

What is anthropology?

Answer 3

The study of humans, their cultures and their biology.

Question 4

What is anthropology divided into?

Answer 4

Human biology and human culture.

Question 5

What is paleoanthropology?

Answer 5

The biological study of last human populations

Question 6

What is bioanthropology?

Answer 6

The biological study of current human populations.

Question 7

What is archaeology?

Answer 7

The study of past human cultures.

Question 8

What is ethnology?

Answer 8

The study of current human cultures.

Question 9

What are the four functions of bones?

Answer 9

Support, motion, protection and growth

Question 10

What do bones consist of? (3)

Answer 10

Hard outer layer; sponge-like inner layer; medullary cavity (contains marrow)

Question 11

What is the cranial skeleton?

Answer 11

The skull

Question 12

What is the post cranial skeleton?

Answer 12

Everything but the skull

Question 13

What is the axial skeleton?

Answer 13

The spine vertebrae and sternum

Question 14

What is the appendicular skeleton?

Answer 14

The group of either upper or lower limbs

Question 15

What is the role of cadaver dogs?

Answer 15

To sniff out human remains.

Question 16

What does a biological profile consist of?

Answer 16

Sex, age at death, age, height, etc.

Question 17

How do we determine sex in adolescence?

Answer 17

Females grow faster than males

Question 18

How do we determine sex from the pelvis?

Answer 18

The sciatic notch. 60° in women, 30° in men

Question 19

How many skull measurements are used to determine sex and race?

Answer 19

34

Question 20

What are the forensic age ranges? (7)

Answer 20

Fetal (before birth), infant (0-3), child (3-12), adolescent (12-20), young adult (20-35), adult (35-50) and old adult (50+).

Question 21

What plays the largest role in dental identification?

Answer 21

Fillings, caps and restorations

Question 22

What are the five sides of a tooth?

Answer 22

Buccal (cheek), lingual (tongue), mesial (toward the body), distal (away from the body) and occlusal surface.

Question 23

What is positive identification?

Answer 23

Individualising a set of remains.

Question 24

What are the four manners of death?

Answer 24

Natural, accidental, homocide and suicide

Question 25

What is taphonomy?

Answer 25

The study of what happens to an organism between the time of death and when it enters a lab.