NATS 1575 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Spectrophotometry, Pubic Hair, Total Synthesis
4 Apr 2017
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Hair is encountered as physical evidence in a wide variety of crimes. Although it is not yet possible to individualize a human hair to any single head or body through its morphology, it still has value as physical evidence. Morphology is the structural aspect of the human hair. With morphology alone you cannot individualize a human hair to a single head. Over the year"s criminalists tried to isolate the physical and chemical structural aspects of the hair. It is important to recognize the components of physical and chemical structure of hair. When properly collected, and submitted to the laboratory accompanied by an adequate number of standard/reference samples, hair can provide strong corroborative evidence for placing an individual at a crime scene. Whenever you get sample evidence you always need to have a. Hair is an appendage of the skin that grows out of an organ known as the hair follicle.
