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Forensic entomology is the study of insects to uncover facts about a crime.
solving crimes with physics
Principle of Exchange is perhaps the most critical theory in forensic science
and is the driving force behind most criminal investigations.
In addition to the Principle of Exchange, the basic theories of science
are important to solving many forensic cases. Forensic biologists, who use
their knowledge of biological systems and patterns to provide information
about the identity of a criminal, rely heavily on the basic concepts of
ge-
netics
. Forensic
entomologists
use their knowledge of the development of
insects to help estimate the amount of time a body has been decaying and,
therefore, the time of death. The development of DNA profiling and many
other powerful forensic techniques are based on years of scientific research
using the theories of biological science.
