Forensic Anthropologists Who Were Called in to Help with the 9/11

question 35

Multiple Choice

Forensic anthropologists who were called in to help with the 9/11 tragedy had to have a very good understanding of:

• A) primate dentition.
• B) human hair identification.
• C) CSI training.
• D) human osteology.

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Definitions:

Primary Structure

The sequence of amino acids in a protein, determining its structure and function.

Normal Distribution

A bell-shaped curve that describes the spread of a variable where most observations cluster around the central peak and the probabilities for values farther from the mean taper off symmetrically.

Probability

Probability measures the likelihood of a given event occurring, ranging from 0 (impossibility) to 1 (certainty).

Cluster Sample

A sampling technique where the population is divided into groups, or clusters, and a sample of these clusters is selected to represent the population.