Anthropology Exam 1 Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
adaptation | change in response to environmental challenges |
catastrophism | "great catastophies regularly wipe out life on earth" |
comparative approach | comparing: entities/cultures/organisims to discover similarities & differences |
holistic approach | drawing on all subdisciplines/other disciplines to answer questions about humans |
reproductive success | measure # of surviving offspring |
taxonomy | naming/classification based upon morphological similarities and differences |
allele | sequence of nucleotides in a gene; form of a gene |
amino acids | building blocks of proteins |
chromosomes | house supercoiled DNA in nucleus |
codon | three nucleotide-sequence :. DNA triplet code written onto the mRNA |
crossing over | sister chromosomes changing segments |
deoxyribonucleic acid | DNA. basic info. for the structure of life |
diploid | 46 chromosomes, 23 pairs |
gene | segment of DNA containing sequence for the protein |
haploid | 23 single chromosomes |
meiosis | production of gametes (haploid cells) |
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