Textbook link p 384-418

https://intervisualtechnology.us/uploads/PDFs/ForensicScience.pdf

Answer the questions below. Submit as a word document or PDF. Answers must be in complete sentences and be thorough. Use your own words and explain each answer thoroughly. Check grammar, spelling, and punctuation.

1. Describe the features you would expect to find in a female skeleton, age 40.

2. Describe the process of ossification of the skull using each of the following terms:

a. Cartilage
b. Blood vessels
c. Osteoblasts
d. Osteocytes
e. Osteoclasts
f. Enzymes
g. Calcium
h. Phosphates

3. Calculate the approximate height of a Caucasian male if one of the following bones is found:

a. radius bone equal to 25 cm
b. humerus bone equal to 30 cm
c. ulna bone equal to 21 cm

4. Suppose that the two bones found belonging to the male in questions 13b and 13c were his ulna, which is 21 cm long, as well as his humerus, which is 30 cm. Calculate his height using both the ulna and the humerus bone measurements. Show your work.