Unit 5: Hair


Mastery Objectives / Critical Skills 

  • Form and structure (morphology) of hair

  • Animal hair: compare and contrast to human

  • Hair growth - biology 
  • Environmental alteration of hair: color, cut, chlorine, etc 
  • Collection of hair evidence (how is it done by investigators)

  • Forensics analysis of hair: what can be revealed?

  • Three case summaries that used hair as evidence

  

 

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