Question

(I'll mark brainlist) Imagine you are an experienced forensic scientist teaching a new forensic scientist about how to handle evidence.
1. What is the first piece of information you would share with the new scientist?

2. How would you explain the importance of preserving evidence?

3. Explain what information scientists can learn from evidence such as a skeleton itself.

4. Why is it important to understand how injuries can be sustained and how the body reacts to different types of injuries? How would you explain the importance of this information to the new scientist?

Answer 1

Answer:

#1. The first piece of info I would share with the new scientist would be is how to protect the evidence and to avoid cross contamination. You can learn all sorts of info with the evidence. By ruining it and not knowing how to take care of a crime scene the info would be useless.

#2. I would explain to the scientist that preserving evidence is really important because for example: There is a group of people and everyone loved the artwork you drew so they all wanted to touch it and hold the paper in their hands to get a better look and feel. This artwork is now contaminated because it wasn't taken care of and people have not put their germs and DNA on this artwork. Just like evidence. If it is not handled properly then it won't be of good use.

#3. Scientists can learn lots of things from just a skeleton. They can decipher whether it is a dinosaur bone or human bone another species etc. When it lived what period and how long it lived for.

#4. It is important to understand how injuries can be sustained because if someone in the work force or another scientist doing an experiment got hurt, it is important to know how to sustain the injury

Example: If you have to wait for the paramedics to arrive or personal doctors you can sustain the injury so the person is still okay and in better condition than he/she would've been.