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Forensic scientist can contribute to many things in respect to science. One of these things are determining the time/day in which a person died. This is called the PMI (post-mortem interval), where an estimation can be made of the corpse between its death and the time its discovered. This estimation is made by getting the oldest larvae (the oldest growth stage) found in the corpse. A larvae is a poikilothrmic organism so the growth of the larvae is dependant on the temperature and time. The most widely used larval growth model is the ADH/D (accumulated degree hour day) linear model. The reason for this may be because it's simple to understand and apply. There are two ways in which this can be used either kill the larvae and measure their size or to quickly take them to the laboratory, then they can be measured and the total ADH needed for...

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