Step 1 - Speaking

Speaking (and Reading)
What do you know about forensic evidence? With your classmate, make a list of the following:

Would you like to be a forensic scientist? Why? Why not?

Read the information and complete the chart.

Which school subject helps you: Subject
identify DNA?  
work out where the bullet came from?  
work out where the body was buried?  
identify drugs?  

 

Read about trace evidence and hair. Answer the questions.

Find out about Forensics

  1. Think of situations where different kinds of hair - not just human - might be good clues.
  2. How might a medical examiner conclude that the person died before a fire?
  3. Why is fingerprinting not always possible to identify a suspect?
  4. Read about fingerprints. Take your own fingerprints. What type have you got?
  5. Read about chromatography. How reliable do you think it is? What are the disadvantages?