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PRACTICAL - Forensic Biology & Serology
COURSE OBJECTIVES: After studying this paper the students will know –
CO 1: The significance of biological evidence.
CO 2: The forensic importance of hair evidence.
CO 3: The importance of biological fluids – blood, urine, semen, saliva, sweat and milk – in crime investigations.
CO 4: How wildlife forensics aid in conserving natural resources.
CO 5: How forensic entomology assists in death investigations.
Lab Experiments:
1. To examine hair morphology and determine the species to which the hair belongs.
2. To prepare slides of scale pattern of human hair.
3. To examine human hair for cortex and medulla.
4. To carry out microscopic examination of pollen grains.
5. To carry out microscopic examination of diatoms.
6. To cite a crime case in which diatoms have served as forensic evidence.
7. To prepare a case report on forensic entomology.
8. To prepare a case report on problems of wildlife forensics.
9. Examination of blood.
10. Examination of various body fluids.
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L. Stryer, Biochemistry, 3rd Edition, W.H. Freeman and Company, New York (1988).
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R.K. Murray, D.K. Granner, P.A. Mayes and V.W. Rodwell, Harper’s Biochemistry, APPLETON & Lange, Norwalk (1993).
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S. Chowdhuri, Forensic Biology, BPRD, New Delhi (1971).
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R. Saferstein, Forensic Science Handbook, Vol. III, Prentice Hall, New Jersey (1993).
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G.T. Duncan and M.I. Tracey, Serology and DNA typing in, Introduction to Forensic Sciences, 2nd Edition, W.G. Eckert (Ed.), CRC Press, Boca Raton (1997).
