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Chapter 16&17 Vocab.
pg. 439 & 463 Vocab.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| primates | a group of mammals |
| opposable thumb | a thumb than can cross the palm to meet the other fingertips |
| antropoids | human like primates |
| prehensile tail | a long, muscular tail |
| hominoid | primates that can walk upright on two legs |
| bipedal | the ability to walk on two legs |
| hominids | bipedal primates |
| australopithecine | early hominid that lived in Africa and possessed both apelike and human-like characteristics |
| neadertals | lived 35-100k years ago in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. |
| Cro-magnons | type of h. sapiens |
| classification | the grouping of objects or information based on similarities |
| taxonomy | branch of biology that groups and names organisms based on studies of their different characteristics |
| binomial nomenclature | two-word naming system |
| genus | a group of similar species |
| specific epithet | 2nd word, describes a characteristic of an species |
| family | group of similar genera |
| order | taxon of similar families |
| class | taxon of similar orders |
| phylum | taxon of similar classes |
| division | a taxon |
| kingdom | a taxon of similar phyla or divisions |
| phylogeny | evolutionary history of a species |
| cladistics | a biological system of classifications based on phylogeny |
| cladogram | a branching diagram |
| protist | a eukaryote that lacks complex organ systems and lives in moist enviorments |
| fungus | either a unicellular or multi-cellular eukaryote that absorbs nutrients from organic materials in the enviorment |
| eubacteria | have very strong cell walls and a less complex genetic makeup than found in archaebacteria or eukaryotes |