Final Flashcards

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Who contributes to a false perception of man and apes?

A

Artists

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1
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Evolution predicts a ____ of man and apes.

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Common ancestor

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2
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What do evolutionists emphasize as similarity between humans and apes?

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DNA

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3
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Humans have how’s my chromosomes?

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23

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4
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Chimps have how many chromosomes?

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24

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5
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Human telomeres are

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Half as long

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6
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Inconsistent comparisons between

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Gorillas and humans

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7
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Chimps have:

A
Sloped face
Smaller brain case
Large long jaw
No nasal bones
Large canine teeth
Large zygomatic arch
Brow ridge
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8
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Who’s jaws are different from humans jaws?

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Orangatang
Gorilla m
Gorilla f
Chimpanzee

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9
Q

When apes are drawn in _____ ____ try can appear to be much more human than they really are.

A

Unnatural position

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10
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Laetrile footprints

A

Footprints in volcanic ash
At least 2 individual walking side by side, upright with no big toe
Presumes to be Australopithecus because of the 3.6 m.y.a. Date

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11
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Paleoanthropology

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Study of human fossils

“Study of old men”

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12
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Most investigators use casts but

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May not be accurate

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13
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Piltdown man

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Filed teeth

Fossil hoax consisting of a human skull and an orangutan jaw

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14
Q

Portrayal of Neanderthal

A
Less intelligence
British
Typical cave man
Very different from modern humans
Probably not true
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15
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Sites of Neanderthal inhabitation

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Europe
France
Croatia
Iraq
Israel
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16
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Distinct Neanderthal characteristics

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Low slopes forehead
Occipital bun
Prominent brow ridge

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17
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What did Neanderthals do?

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Used fire and tools
Hunted and trapped prey
Used jewelry
Probably interbred with modern humans 
Cared for each other
Buried their dead
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18
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Homo erectus

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Upright man
.3-1.8 m.y.a. 
1891 Eugene dubois java island
Skull cap femur few teeth found 
1920 admitted finding wajak 1&2
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19
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Homo ergaster

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1.9-1.5 million years ago

Assumed to be ancestral to hp populations but likely just regional differences

20
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Homo habilis

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Small and ape like

21
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Homo rudolfensis

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2.4-1.8 m.y.a.

22
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Lucy

A

Some consider it an extinct ape

Reconstructed from msu

23
Q

Similarity does not prove ____

A

Ancestry

24
Q

Proteins

A

Specific sequence using 20 different amino acids

About 100-800 amino acids long

25
Q

The three dimensional share of a protein determines its

A

Function

26
Q

The amino acid sequence determines the three dimensional ____ of the protein

A

Structure

27
Q

What determines the amino acid sequence

A

DNA

28
Q

Orphan genes

A

No known origin

29
Q

Metabolism

A

> 550 different enzymes involved in metabolism

30
Q

How did life arise? Evolution

A

Biological molecules, then cells rose from a primordial soup

31
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Answer to origin of life from creation perspective

A

Each living things specially created fully formed

Made to reproduce after its kind

32
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Spontaneous generation

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Belief that living things could arise from mon-living material
Late 1800s Pasteur and Virchow definitively showed that spontaneous generation was false

33
Q

All living things are made of

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Cells

34
Q

The cell is the fundamental unit of

A

Life

35
Q

Every cell comes from a

A

Pre-existing cell

36
Q

What is required to make DNA and RNA?

A

Proteins

37
Q

DNA is linear polymer of

A

Nucleotide

38
Q

Stretch of DNA which codes for a protein

A

Gene

39
Q

How many types or RNA?

A

3

40
Q

Types of RNA

A

mRNA
tRNA
rRNA

41
Q

RNA transcription

A

RNA olymerase:> 30 different proteins

42
Q

Translation

A

Protein synthesis

43
Q

Mutation

A

Change in stop or start codon
Change in promoter ,regulation
Change in amino acid sequence

44
Q

Enzymes

A

Proteins

45
Q

What was the first biological molecule made in a lab?

A

Urea

46
Q

What can’t form spontaneously?

A

RNA

47
Q

What is required but not easily made?

A

Ribose