EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Botanical evidence must be stored in sterile and dry containers to avoid contamination. These containers include paper bags and paper envelopes.

Detailed explanation-2: -Plant evidence can be useful for determining if a death was due to an acci-dent, suicide, or homicide, or what time of year burial may have taken place. In addition, plant evi-dence can be used to determine if a crime scene is a primary or secondary scene and to locate missing bodies.

Detailed explanation-3: -Forensic botanists can use their knowledge of plant structure, anatomy, and environments to assemble sufficient evidence to convict a suspect by placing him at the scene of the crime or by establishing that an object or a body has been moved.

Detailed explanation-4: -assemblage. the application of plant science to crime-scene analysis or the resolution of criminal cases.