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Anthropology Exam 1
Key Terms: Core Concepts in Biological Anthropology, FUENTES
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| adaptation | change in response to environmental challenges |
| catastrophism | "great catastophies regularly wipe out life on earth" |
| comparative approach | comparing: entities/cultures/organisims to discover similarities & differences |
| holistic approach | drawing on all subdisciplines/other disciplines to answer questions about humans |
| reproductive success | measure # of surviving offspring |
| taxonomy | naming/classification based upon morphological similarities and differences |
| allele | sequence of nucleotides in a gene; form of a gene |
| amino acids | building blocks of proteins |
| chromosomes | house supercoiled DNA in nucleus |
| codon | three nucleotide-sequence :. DNA triplet code written onto the mRNA |
| crossing over | sister chromosomes changing segments |
| deoxyribonucleic acid | DNA. basic info. for the structure of life |
| diploid | 46 chromosomes, 23 pairs |
| gene | segment of DNA containing sequence for the protein |
| haploid | 23 single chromosomes |
| meiosis | production of gametes (haploid cells) |