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Subspecies |
Group of local populations that share part of the geographic range of a species and can be differentiated from other species and can be differentiated from other subspecies based on one or more phenotypic traits. (race of animals) |
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Ethnobiology |
The study of how traditional cultures classify objects and organisms in the natural world |
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Clines |
The distribution of a trait or allele across geographical space |
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Ontogeny |
the branch of biology that deals with ontogenesis. (the development of an organism)
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Philopatry |
Philopatry is the tendency of an organism to stay in or habitually return to a particular area.
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Frugivorous |
An animal that eats a diet composed mainly of fruit |
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Folivores
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Animals that eat a diet composed mainly of leaves, or foliage |
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Fossils |
The preserved remnants of once-living things, often buried in the ground |
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Petrification fossils |
petrifaction or petrification is the process by which organic material becomes a fossil through the replacement of the original material and the filling of the original pore spaces with minerals.
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Trace fossils |
a fossil of a footprint, trail, burrow, or other trace of an animal rather than of the animal itself.
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paleontology |
the branch of science concerned with fossil animals and plants
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relative dating |
not giving a date, order or younger than something |
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strata |
layers of rock in the ground |
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geological time scale |
categories of time into which earths history is usually divided by geologist and paleontologist |
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paleomagnetism |
is the record of magnetic polarity recorded in ancient sediments |
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chromatic dating |
giving a date |
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Half life |
The time it takes for the original amount of an unstable isotope of an element to decay into the male stable forms. |
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Isotope |
Forms of an element that vary based on their atomic weights and the number of neutrons in the nucleus |
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parent isotope |
unstable/ radioactive |
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daughter isotope |
remaining nucleotide left over from radioactive decay |
