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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| primates | a group of mammals that include lemurs, monkeys, apes, and humans |
| opposable thumb | primates have these, a thumb that can cross the palm to meet the other fingers |
| anthropoids | humanlike primates |
| hominoid | primates that can walk upright on two legs |
| bipendal | meaning able to walk on two legs |
| hominid | bipendal primates that include modern humans and their direct ancestors |
| australopithecine | early hominid that lived in africa and possessed both apelike and humanlike characteristics |
| neandertal | skilled hunters |
| cro-magnon | identical to modern humans in height, skull stucture, tooth structure,and brain size |
| classification | the grouping of objects or info based on similarities |
| taxonomy | the branch of biology that groups and names organisms based on studies of their different characteristics |
| binomial nomenclature | two word naming system |
| genus | group of similar species |
| specific epithet | the second word, which sometimes describes a characteristic of the organism |
| order | taxon of similar families |
| class | taxon of similar order |
| phylum | taxon of similar class |
| division | plant taxonomists used the taxon to replace phylum |
| kingdom | similar phyla or divisions |
| phylogency | the evolutionary history of a species |
| cladistics | biological system of classification that is based on phylogeny |
| cladogram | model of the phylogeny of a species |
| eubacteria | strong cell walls and a less complex genetic makeup then found in archaebacteria |
| fungus | unicellular or multicellular eukaryote that absorbs nutrients from organic materials in the environment |