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| How many bones are there in the adult human body? |
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How can racial origin of an individual be identified?
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| Skeletal features such as nose and head size and shape. |
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| What is physical feature is needed to establish the gender of the individual? |
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How can gender be identified from a skeleton? |
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| Females have wider angle in the pubic arch of the pubis bone |
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| How are broken bones or joint replacements good ways to identify unknown remains? |
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Usually include serial numbers or healed break lines to compare with medical records/X-rays
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| Which gender would be expected to show a ventral arc? |
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Females have a curved wide pelvic bone to support birth delivery |
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| How are broken bones or joint replacements good ways to identify unknown remains? |
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Usually include serial numbers or healed break lines to compare with medical records/X-rays |
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Why do the forensic anthropologist studying skeletal remains? |
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| Establishing an exact age range? |
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| Which is more important in determining age of a skeleton? |
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What is the most important factor for a recognizable facial reconstruction?
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| Why would an anthropologist be consulted by a pathologist? |
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To help determine cause of death
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In females, at what age are all cranial sutures usually closed by? |
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What are the holes in bones that carry the blood supply called?
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From bones, what things might a forensic anthropologist be able to determine? |
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| Race, sex, gender, height |
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What is the study of bones called? |
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What difference do we see between the osteons in human bones and animal bones? |
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| In animals, osteons form a regular pattern. In humans, the osteons are in a more chaotic pattern. |
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What are the functions of the skeletal system? |
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| Protects vital organs, supplies points attachment for muscles, produces blood cells, serves as a storage area for minerals |
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What bones are referred to as the long bones? |
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| Any bone that is longer than it is wide; most typically refers to femur, tibia, fibia, humerus, ulna, and radius, although also refers to the bones in the hands and feet. |
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Where is the ventral arc located?
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What parts of the skeleton may be used to determine the gender of skeletal remains? |
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| Skull, os pubis, relative sizes of long bones |
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| A line on a bone from where bones have grown together |
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| What identifying piece of information do sutures help to determine? |
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| At what age in males are all cranial sutures usually closed by? |
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Why is facial reconstruction done on an unidentified skull? Proportioning of facial features to help in recognition |
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| Proportioning of facial features to help in recognition |
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| A place where two bones meet and may rub together |
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| What are the four classifications of bones? |
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| Long, short, flat and irregular |
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What is the shaft of a bone called?
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What peoples are included in mongoloid descent? |
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| Asian, Native American, and Polynesian |
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What are some common cranial feature of Caucasoids/Caucasians
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long, narrow nasal aperture, triangular palate, oval orbits, narrow zygomatic arch |
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| What are some common Negroids cranial features? |
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| wide nasal aperture, rectangular palate, square orbits,more pronounced zygomatic arches |
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| What are some common features of Mongoloid cranium? |
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| more rounded nasal aperture, parabolic palate, rounded orbits,wide zygomatic arches |
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What bones can help to determine age, height, race, gender?
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age can be identified by cranial sutures, long bones epiphysis, os pubis
height can be identified the by the femur, tibia, humerus, radius,
race can be identified by skull features
gender can be identified by the os pubis, skull features, sometimes length of long bones |
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What is the name of this diagram, its essential parts, and the sex?
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The pelvis bone includes (A )is the subpubic angle or pubic arch.(B) is the pubic body. It represents a Males since it has narrower pubic body and arch (angle).
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What are the major bones studied in forensic science investigation? |
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| Clavicle, Femur, Fibula, Humerus, iliac crest, mandible, os coxae, os pubis, radius, skull, sternum, tibia, ulna, xyphoid proces |
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