Term | Definition |
anthropology | (anthros-human, logia-study) tells the basic story. study of humankind from its beginning millions of years ago to present day. |
evolutionary perspective | homosapiens have a long evolutionary history that must be studied if one is to know what it means to be a human being. |
biological (physical) perspective | looks at homos as a genus and species, tracing their biological origins, evolutionary development, and genetic diversity. study the biocultural prehistory of homo to understand human nature and evolution of brain and nervous systems. |
anthropology subfields | cultural, linguistic, archaeology, applied |
human biology | human biodiversity, anthropological genetics, physiological anthropology, contemporary human microevolution, growth development and adaptation, applied biological anthropology |
primatology | non-human primate social behaviors and ecology, primate comparative anatomy, ape-hominid molecular biology, promisian/monkey/ape biology and behavior, primate evolutionary history, primate non-social behaviors and ecology |
paleoanthropology | modern human origins, hominid evolution in pleistocene, hominid evolution in pliocene, molecular paleoanthropology, comparative hominid anatomy and ecology, human evolution |
DNA | chemical equation by which hereditary information is transformed from genes into structural and regulatory proteins such as hemoglobin, insulin, pepsin, enzymes, and hormones. |
enzymes | proteins that catalyze (accelerate) chemical reactions |
pepsin | digestive protease released by the chief cells in the stomach that functions to degrade food proteins into peptides |
hemoglobin | (hb, hab) iron-containing oxygen transport metalloprotein in the red blood cells of the blood in vertabrates and other animals |
hormone | (greek-to set in motion) chemical messenger from one cell or group of cells to another |
insulin | polypeptide hormone that regulates carbohydrate metabolism. |
four nuclear bases | adenine (a-purine), thymine (t-pyrimidine), cytosine (c-pyrimidine), guanine (g-purine). A always binds with T, C always bonds with G. |
codon | three nucleotides. each designates an amino acid. |
amino acids | codon provides code. building blocks of proteins and intermediates in metabolism. 20 found in proteins. |