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Biopsychology
Chapter #2
| Words | Definition |
|---|---|
| Cartesian dualism | the idea that the human brain and the mind are seperate |
| asomatognosia | a defiency in the awareness of one's own body parts. Typically involves the left side of the body cause by right parietal lobe damage. |
| species | a group of organisms that is rproductively isolated from other organisms |
| Chordates | species with vertebrates |
| Vertebrates | The first were primitive bony fish. There are now 7 classes: 3 classes of fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and ammlas. |
| Primates | There are 5 families of primates: prosimians, New-World monkeys, Old-World monkeys, apes, & hominids |
| Hominids | Two types, humans are the only surviving ones |
| taxonomy of the human species1 | kingdom-phylum-class-order-family-genus-species |
| taxonomy of human species2 | animal-chordate-mammal-primate-hominid-homo-sapiens |
| spandrels | incidental nonadaptive evolutionary by-products |
| exaptations | characterisics evolved to perform one function and later became to perforn as different function. |
| homologous | structures that are similar because of common evolutionary origan |
| analogous | structures that are similar, but do not have a common evolutionary origin |
| convergent evolution | the evolution of unrelated species of similar solutions to the same envorimental demands |
| convolutions | folds on the cerebral surface greatly increasing the surface of the cerebral cortex |
| polygyny | an arrangement in which one males forms mating bonds with more than one female |
| polyandry | females making a greater contrinbution in mating by the female forming mating bonds with more than one male |
| Dichotomous traits | traits that occur in one form or another, but never combined |
| phenotype | observable traits |
| genotype | genetic traits passed on |
| chromosomes | the threadlike structure in the nucleus of each cell |
| sex-linked traits | all sex-linked traits are controlled by genes on the X chromosome |
| Ontogeny | development of individuals over the life span |
| Phylogeny | the evolutionary development of species throughthe ages |
| operator genes | functional purpose determines whether structural genes will initiate the synthesis of a protein or not |
| gene expression | dertermimes how a cell will develop and function once it reaches maturity |
| PKU (phenylketonuria | a single gene mutation that can be compensatedc for if detected right after birth, otherwise causing abnormal brain development |
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