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biological Anthropology

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the study of human biology within the frame work of evolutionary biological

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Primatology

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preservation of endangered species

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Paleopathology

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prehistoric forensics

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inductive reasoning

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when you take a specific phenomenon then use that instance to make broad generalization

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deductive reasoning

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when there is already alot known about a phenomenon but you focus on something specific within that knwon frameowrk

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Copernicus

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heliocentric universe, naturalistic theistic basis for inellectual views, He was a marhematician/astronomer replaced ptolemic view

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Catastrophism

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the view that the earths geological landscape is the result of violent cataclysmic events.Cuvier promoted this view.e Especially in opposition events

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Linnaeus

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organisms are static and perfectly adapted to their environment

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Lamarck

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evolution occurs as a response to a stimulus an inheritance of acquired characteristics

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Darwin’s

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shift in human history intellectually. beagle voyages doubt in species fixity

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Great Chain Of Being

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Hierarchical structure of all matter and life

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natural selection

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Evolutionary change, front descired by charles darwin th term refers to genetic change or changes in the frequencies of certain traits in populations due to differential reproductive success between individuals

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Malthus

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human population growth is potentially geomertic, food production increases arithmetically

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cuvier

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proposed catastrophism as an explanation for extinction. earths geology and natural history periodically produced turnover events. Ex: vertebrates, Molluscs

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bionomial nomenclature

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established by linnaeus, genus and species names are used to refwe to living things. ex, homosapiens refers to human beings

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Lyell

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natural laws, earths crust took place through multiplle changes over vast periods of time

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fossil

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preserved remains impression or trace of any once living thing from a past geological age

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variation

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differences in population/genes

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darwinian fitness

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capacity of a variant type to invade and displace the resident population in competetion for available resources

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organic evolution

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change in the properties of population of organisms, through genetic transmission, which transcends the lifetime of a single individual

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broad sense evolution

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merely change, all peruasive, galaxies, languages , political systems and individuals all evolve

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geological uniformation

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how life interacted and influence each other throughout time

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inheirtance of acquired charcteristics

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orgagisms experiencingsuch a modification can transmit such a character to its offspring

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darwins evidence of natural selection

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if animals didnt adapt right than they wouldntmake it far enough to reproduce

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paradigm shift to naturalistic view of life
is a world shift
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Mitosis
produces 2 identical cells
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meiosis
the chromosomes cross over and the
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haploid
23 chromosomes cross over and the chromosomes swap (sex cells)
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diploid
46 chromosomes (somatic cells)
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centromere
links the pair of sister chromatids together during cell division
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chemical base bonding
each pair of shared electrons constitute udes one chemical base
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allele
alternate form of a gene, blue eyes (recessive) brown eyes (dominant)
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gene
segment of dna that is functional encodes a protein, encodes a protein, encode RNA, DNA regulations or DNA structure elements
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Homologous
pairing at meiosis and having the same strucutre features and pattern of genes
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gamete
reproductive cell of an animal or plant
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codon
the genetic code is the set of rules used by living cells to translate information encoded within genetic material into proteins
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4 dna bases
Adenine (a), cytosine (c) guanine (g) thymine (t)
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mutation
change from the ancestral (changes of DNA from the parent to you) creates new alleles
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Triplet
64 different combination provides plenty of info in DNA placement for all 20 amino acids
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cell nucleus
cotains all of the cell's chromosomes, which encode the genetic material
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single locus
a specfic, fixed position on a chromosome where a particular gene or genetic marker is located
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redundancy
most amino acids are specified by more than one mRNA codon
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chromosome
structure of nucleic acids and protein found in the nucleus of most living cells
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Recombination
the exchange of genetic material between paired chromosome during meiosis , also called crossing over
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karyotype
the chromsomes of an individual what is typical of a species, viewed mircoscopically and displayed in a photograph. the chromosome are aranged in pairs and according to size and position of the centromere
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Nucleotide
basic units of the dna molecule, composed of a sugar, a phosphate, and one of four DNA bases
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exons
protein- coding segments of DNA, these are copied into RNA during transcription. exons exit the nucleus to form proteins, exons make up <2% of the human geone
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introns
non coding segments of DNA. these are copied into rna during transcription but are removed proir to translation
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independent assortment
Distribution of one pair of alleles into gametes does not influence the distribution of another pair. the genes controlling different traits are inherited independently of one another
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segregation of traits
each individual that is a diploid has a pair of alleles for a particular trait
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blending inheritance
parental traits mixed to produce intermiediate offspring
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pleiotrophy
additional refinement to mendels seconds law, the condition which a single mutant gene affects two ore more seemingly unrelated genes and therefore their phenotypic trait expression
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genotype
the geentic makeup of an individual genotype usually refers to an organism genetic makeup at a particular locus
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phenotype
the observable or detectable physical characteriscs of an organism, the detectable expressions of genotype, frequently influenced by enviromental factors
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mendels phenotype ratios
9:3:3:1
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linkage
important refinment to mendels second law
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homozygous
the same allele present at a locus
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heterozygous
two different variations of a gene
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dominant
like RR or Rr it will always be the R trait because its powerful
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recessive
like rr from parent
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modern synthesis
intergration of mendelian genetics and natural selection
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polygenic inheritance
the inheritance of a trait governed by more than one gene
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modes of natural selection
stabilizing selection, directional selection, disruptive selection
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phylogeny
two methodological apporoaches
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populations
a group of people
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biological species
unworkable concept, formulated by ernst Mayr , a group of organisms that can be interbreed, to produce fertile offpsring and are reproductively isolated from other groups
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speciation
the fundamental marcoevolutionary process
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adaptive radiation
the relatively rapid expansion and diversification of life forms into new ecological niches
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genetic drift
within small population result in less geentic allele diversity within a population , allele shift within a population not caused by natural selection . result in ledd diversity of alleles in a population
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evolutionary forces random
genetic drift
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evolutionary forces directional
gene flow
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gene pool
the collection of all available genes that are available to be passed down from parents to offspring in the population of a single species
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taxonomy
the practice of classification
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cladogram
shows the theory of relationships between groups of organisms
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macroevolution
importance of species concept, species is the central unit in macroevolution, speciation is the process driving macroevolutionary change
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homologus
similar instructure and position in two ore more organisms, these were inheirted by a common ancestor
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gene flow
the exchange of genes/alleles between population leads to homogenized gene pools, over time , should exchange continue -> this leads to homogention of the two populations
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gradulism
changes in a organism occur gradually through time in states rather than slowly

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