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Biology
Advanced Subsidiary Unit 4: The Natural Environment and Species Survival
Wednesday 16 June 2010 – Morning Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
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Instructions black ink or • Usein the boxesball-point pen. page with your name, at the top of this • Fill number and candidate number. centre • Answer all questions. in the spaces provided the questions • Answermay be more space than you need. – there

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Answer ALL questions. Some questions must be answered with a cross in a box . If you change your mind about an answer, put a line through the box and then mark your new answer with a cross . 1 Forensic scientists use several different types of evidence to estimate the time of death of a body. (a) Place a cross in the boxes next to the two types of evidence that could be used by a forensic scientist to estimate the time of death of a body. (2) Degree of muscle contraction Length of fingernails Signs of decomposition Skin pigmentation (b) The core temperature of a body can also be used to estimate the time of death. This can be recorded by measuring the temperature of the rectum. The table

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