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Lemurs tarsiers monkeys and apes evolved as small arboreal animals 65 million years ago

Primates

Stays in trees; never touched the ground

Arboreal

Small, nocturnal tree-dwellers

Tarsiers

Mammals with placenta

Eutharian

Extra stomach chamber

Rumen

Humans and four other groups of apes (gibbons, gorillas, orangutans, chimps)

Hominoids

Walk on two legs

Bipedal

Has four limbs

Tetrapod

The only fully arboreal apes

Gibbons

Largest of the apes, are fully terrestrial

Gorillas

Lost most of its original function in the course of evolution

Vestigial

History of species

Phylogeny

Partly digested food that comes up from the stomach

Cud

A higher primate, especially ape

Anthropoid

Used for nourishing and maintaining babies in the womb

Placenta

Shy and solitary live in the rainforest

Orangutans

Involving only one partner

Monogamous

Make use of tools, 99% same as humans evolution says we came from them

Chimps

Only live in Madagascar

Lemurs

Produces hormones

Endocrine

Support, cushion, between vertebrae

Cartilage

Blood supply, hard, living

Bone

Oxygen blood

RBC

Help fight toxins in the body

WBC

Clotting

Platelets

Receive signals from other neurons

Dendrite

Carries signals to symphatic terrestrials

Axon

Used to moisten food

Crop

Tube-shaped sac attached to an opening into the lower end of the long intestine

Appendix

Long gland behind the stomach that secretes digestive enzymes

Pancreas

System that carries fluids and vitals through the body

Circulatory

Pouch connected to the junction of the small and large intestine

Cecum

Relating to or affecting the region where the stomach opens into the duodenum

Pyloric

The contracting and relaxing of the stomach muscles that creates moment of contents

Peristalsis

Fluid that aids digestion

Bile

Consisting of gastric juices and part digested food

Chyme

Small rounded mass of a substance especially of chewed food

Bolus

Projections from the surface of some cells

Microvilli

Large gandular organ in the abdomen of vertebrates, involved in many metabolic processes

Liver

Place where bile is stored

Gallbladder

Specialized contractile tissue

Muscle

Allows gas exchange in the Body

Respiratory

Protects internal body structures

Integumentary

Pumping and transporting blood through the body

Cardiovascular

White blood cells, help fight toxins in the body

Immune

Fat

Adipose

Liquid tissue

Blood

Cartilage, tendons

Fibrous