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Ch. 16 and 17 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Anthropoid | humanlike primates that include New World monkeys, Old World monkeys, and hominoids |
| Opposable thumb | Primate characteristic of having a thumb cross the palm and meet the other fingertips |
| Prehensile tail | long muscular tail used by a fifth limb for grasping and wrapping around objects |
| Primate | group of mammals including lemurs, monkeys, apes, and humans that evolved from a common ancestor |
| Australopithecine | early African hominoid, genus Australopithecus, that had both apelike and humanlike cahracteristics |
| Bipedal | able to walk on two legs |
| Cro-Magnon | modern form of Homosapiens that spread throughout Europe between 35000 to 40000 years ago |
| Hominid | a group of bipedal primates that includes modern humans and their direct ancestors |
| Hominoid | a group of primates that can walk upright on two legs |
| Neandertal | archaic Homo |
| Binomial nomenclature | Two-word system developed by Carlos Linnaeus to name species |
| Class | taxonomic grouping of similar orders |
| Classification | grouping of objects or information based on similarities |
| Division | taxonomic grouping of similar classes |
| Family | group of similar genera |
| Genus | first word of a two-part scientific name used to identify a group of similar species |
| Kingdom | taxonomic grouping of similar phyla or divisions |
| Order | taxonomic grouping of similar famlies |
| Phylum | taxonomic grouping of similar classes |
| Specific epithet | the second word of a species name |
| Taxonomy | branch of biology that groups and names organisms based on studies of their shared characteristics |
| Cladisitics | biological classification system based on phlogeny |
| Cladogram | branching diagram that models the phylogeny of a species based on the derived traits of a group of organisims |
| Eubacteria | group of prokaryotes with strong cell walls and a variety of structures, may be autotrophs or heterotrophs |
| Fungus | group of unicellular or multicellular heterotrophic eukaryotes that do not move from place to place |
| Phylogeny | evolutionary history of a species based on comparative relationships of structure and comparisons of modern life forms with fossils |
| Protist | diverse group of multicellular or unicellular eukaryotes that lack complex organ systems and live in moist environments |