Pathology and Biology

The American Academy of Forensic Sciences Pathology/Biology section: the medical and biological disciplines that determine cause and manner of death and analyze biological material recovered from a scene or a body, spanning autopsy pathology, DNA profiling, blood and body-fluid serology, and the biological sciences of entomology and botany applied to estimate time and place of death from insect activity and plant evidence. Belongs here: any discipline whose evidence is a human body, its biological material, or living organisms recovered in connection with it. Does not belong here: skeletal and craniofacial identification, grouped under Physical Anthropology, or physical trace materials with no biological component, grouped under Criminalistics.