How can you utilize the medulla in a hair to distinguish between human and nonhuman hair?
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Question 4
4.
List 3 functions of hair.
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Question 6
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Explain how a history of THC (cannabis) usage can be determined through forensic hair analysis.
Utilize the following words in your answer: follicle, capillary, hair, trace chemicals
Question 7
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Question 8
8.
Select the stage of hair growth where hair is most likely to be transferred to another person or object.
Question 9
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Isotopes are atoms of the same element with a different _______.
Question 10
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Sharing hair brushes can be gross. What if the other person has lice? They brush their hair, the lice transfers onto the brush, and then you brush your hair with the same brush, transferring the lice to your own head. This is an example of _______.
Which of the following are the 3 layers of the hair?
medullary index, cortex, cutlet
cortex, imbricate, cuticle
cuticle, cortex, medulla
cuticle, imbricate, scale
Hairs shed during the telogen phase of growth are most likely to contain
mitochondrial DNA
nuclear DNA
papilla
medullary index
follicles
________ hair analysis is subject to human bias and insufficient to convict someone of a crime.
Spectrographic
Microscopic
Neutron activation
Chemical
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is considered to be __________.
class evidence
sufficient evidence for a conviction
superior to nuclear DNA
an integral component of microscopic hair analysis.
