FORENSIC PATHOLOGY, The application of scientific methods to the recognition, collection, identification, and comparison of physical evidence generated by criminal or illegal civil activity. It also involves the reconstruction of such events by evaluationof the physical evidence and the crime scene., FORENSIC ENGINEERING, Uses the concepts of mechanical, civil and electrical engineering as tools in the construction of crimes and accidents and the determination of their cause., FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY, Deals with skeletal biology, which includes bone and bone system structures and their relationships to characteristics such as gender, age, race, socioeconomic status, and so forth. , FORENSIC ODONTOLOGY, One of the most long-standing and important is the identificacion of a body from its dentition, which may be the only reliable way of identifying human remains in mass disasters, such as airplane crashes, fires, or wars. A body may be too badly damaged to have any fingerprints or usable DNA for typing, but dentition is very hardy and can survive crashes, fires, and even explotions., CRIMINALISTIC, Deals with the cuase and matter of death., TOXICOLOGY, Is the analysis and identification of poisons and drugs in the body. Forensic toxicology is the application of such analysis to cases in which death or injury may have been caused by the ingestion of drugs or poisons..

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