Blood, bugs, and plants /

Gaensslen, Robert E.

Blood, bugs, and plants / R.E. Gaensslen. - New York, NY : Facts On File, c2009. - xviii, 174 p. : ill. 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 162-166) and index.

and botany ("plants"), a field used to analyze plants as evidentiary material. It also illustrates progress made in these areas through research in the forensic laboratory, investigations in the field, and courtroom testimony. entomology ("bugs), the study of insects, whose life cycles inform autopsies It explores how three disciplines within biological science relate to forensic science: the identification of blood and other physiological fluids, including DNA typing and interpretation of blood-spatter patterns

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Forensic biology.

QH 313.5.F67 / .G118 2009