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Forensic Botany Worksheet

Student Name:
Time Estimate: 45 minutes

Forensic Analysis:
Follow the instructions in the lesson to complete the chart.
Initial Observations:
Plant 1 Plant 2

Picture or
sketch

Observation Color? Flower/Cone/None? Color? Flower/Cone/None?


s Yellow, Sunflower, It has a cone Green, Cycadophyta, it has a cone

Flat or needle leaves? Hard or softwood? Flat or needle leaves? Hard or softwood?
Scales? Scales?
Flat leaves and softwood scales Needle leaves, softwood scales

Use a web search to try to identify your sample and find more information about it. Put your best guess for each
plant's identity in the chart below.
Plant 1 Plant 2

Name of plant Sunflower Cycadophyta

Life Cycle Seasonal/Year-round? Seasonal/Year-round?


Annual Annual
Pollen or spore Pollen Pollen
Other similar species Silphium genus Zamia

Lesson Connections:

1. Which characteristics of each plant were most helpful in possibly identifying it and why?
Plant 1: Sunflower- the color and what it can produce
Plant 2: Cycadophyta – the size and the needled leaves

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2. Do you think your plant has enough unique characteristics to be a good piece of evidence in a crime?
Why or why not?
No, because they reproduce asexually that means that the plants mostly look the same and would be
hard to determine which would be there.

3. What difficulties did you have when examining your plant evidence?
The name of plant 2.

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