1. 1. Epiphyseal plates turn into epiphyseal lines. How and why?
Objective: Students will describe how bones contain a record of injuries and disease. Students will describe the role of mitochondrial DNA in bone identification.
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1. Epiphyseal plates turn into epiphyseal lines. How and why?
2. How can you identify a victims age by looking at their bones?
3. Have you ever broke a bone, fractured a bone, or did any activities that caused you to damage a bone?
Block 1 Only: Write your height in inches on the paper yellow paper in the front of the class. (Ex. 5’4’’ 5’ x 12 = ” = total 64 inches

2. Review activity

3. Determining Trauma
Antemortem
Perimortem
Postmortem

4. Perimortem
Antemortem
Postmortem

7. Diseases

8. Mitochondria DNA can extract even If a specimen is severely decomposed
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Only a very small sample size is required.
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