Crime Scene Botanicals - Forensic Botany (10 points)

 

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Download this article on crime solving plants as a part of Forensic Botany. You are familiar with many applications of plants and this article is providing us another emerging application of Botany in Forensic Science.

Read the entire article and answer the following questions.

 

Q1. Dr. Koehler was specialized in which sub-discipline of Botany? 

 

Q2. In the figure-1 you can see wood sections. What are the big circular structures?

 

 

Q3. What was the main piece of evidences Dr. Koehler was interested in?

 

Q4. To collect the evidences what were the two different tree species used in this case study?

 

 

Q5. List all the other plant parts used in this article to solve the crime scene.

 

 

Q6. How modern techniques in plant science can be used to more efficiently in Forensic Botany?

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1 Dr Koehler was an expert on wood anatomy and identification at the Forest Products Laboratory Unit... View the full answer