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bio 1 hon ch 16&14.2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| oppposable first digit | a digit that is set apart from other digits |
| binocular visoon | overlapping fields of vision |
| diurnal | active during the day |
| nocturnal | active during the night |
| arborel | tree dwelling |
| anthropods | a group of large-brained, diurnal monkeys and hominoids |
| prehensile tail | functions like a fifth limb |
| hominins | human-like primates that appear to be more closely related to present-day bonobos and chimps. |
| hominoids | all non-monkeyanthropods |
| bipedal | the ability to walk upright on two legs |
| austalopithecines | small organsisms that had ape-like brains and jaws. |
| homo | livin g and exctinct human |
| neanderthals | a distinct human species that evolved exclusively in europe and asia |
| cro-magnons | the beginning of historic hunter-gatherer societies |
| homo habilis | used stone toold |
| homo rgaster | migrated |
| homo erectus | used fire |
| homo neanderthalus | built shelter |
| spontaneous generation | the idea that life arises from nonlife |
| theory of biogenisis | only living organisms can produce other living organsisms |
| endosymbioant theory | the ancestors of eukaryotic cells lived in assoc.with prokaryotic cells |