Anthropology

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What is a creation Myth and what does it not do?

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A creation myth is a myth that explains the orgins of the world and the inhabitants.

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Myth

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Scientific Method

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A process where the hypothesis is put on trial and tried to be disproved,through experiments and observations.

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Method

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Theory

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a well tested hypothesis that was found to be true.

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Truth

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Anthropology

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The holistic study of people in all places and times

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Holistic

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What are the four subfeilds of Anthropology?

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Physical, archaeology, linguistic and cultural Antropology

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PALC

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Applied Antropology

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A highly debated possible subfeild of Anthropology, where problem solving is the point, not just observing.

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Problems

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Physical Anthropology

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The study of humans in a biological stand point with a consideration to culture. Examples are Criminal justice (forensic anthropology), paleoanthropology, primatology and medical anthropology.

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Physical state

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Archaeology

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Study of what's left in time, using artifacts and imprints in the landscape. Examples are prehistoric, historic and under water archaeology.

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artifacts

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Cultural Anthropology

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Study of modern cultures around the world. Very diverse. Examples are economic, urban, rural and psychological antropology.

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culture

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Linguistic Anthropology

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There are three types, Socio Linguistics, the study of the relationship between culture and language. Structural linguistics, the study of sound systems. Historical linguistics, the study of the emergence of language.

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language

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Holistic

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Study of something in the broadest sense.

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Broad

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Uniformatarianism

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The idea that the processes that changed the earth in the past is still going on today.

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past and present

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Catastrophist

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a beleif that the world was changed over time with a series of catastrophic events.

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a series

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Creationist

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one that believes that a supernatural power is the origin of everything

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God

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Taxonomy

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Created by Carlous Linnaeus and is a system for classification based on similarities and diffrences

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classification

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Strata (stratum)

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Layers of diffrent rock and soil types

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rock

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Progressive

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The idea that

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Inheritance of acquired charecteristics

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The idea that whatever traits a parent acquires the offspring will too, like a tattoo.

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Giraffes

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Unilinear

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The idea that all cultures go through the same stages in the same order.

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uni- all

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Multilinear

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Diffrent cultures go through diffrent stages, and in diffrent orders.

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Diffrences

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Ethnocentrism

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Judging and acting upon a comparing a diffrent culture in terms of your own.

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Judgment

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Cultural Relativism

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Looking and judging a culture in it's own context. It makes cross cultural comparissons difficult.

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Individual

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Evolution

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chane over time

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time

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Stasis

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The early world view that all aspects of nature are fixed and unchanging.

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staying

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Importance of Scientific Method

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It provided facts and evidence to support the theories

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fact

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Carolus Linnaeus

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He devoloped taxonomy and binomial nominclature i

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giraffes and other Animals

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Erasmus Darwin

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evolutionary theory in poems

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poems

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Lamarck

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First scientist to form his beliefs into a system that explained evolutionary theory. He also supported inheritance of acquired charecteristics

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inheritance

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Georges Cuvier

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Lamarck's opponent, fixity of species

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fix

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Charles Lyell

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proponent of uniformitarionism

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uniform

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Charles Darwin

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Came from a well to do family, became a ships naturalist. Went to the galapagos. he had evidence and feild experience. He proposed natural selection and published the origin of species

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Origin of species

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Natural selection

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The best adapted survive and the environment decides who is the most benificial

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fit

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Mechanism for natural selection

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A trait must be inheirated in order to be important
variation must be there

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variation

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How much of DNA is active?

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2 percent

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little

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J Vender vs Francis collins

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there was a race to decipher the Gnome first

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run

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Genotype vs phenotype

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genotype is the whole thing phenotype is what you see

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half

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Microevolution

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small changes happen to slightly change the populations traits

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small

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Macroevolution

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when the change is so big that the population has turned into a new species

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new

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Mendels proportions

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3:1

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Mitochondria

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DNA that doesn't split, it is a good way of tracking ancestory. It is passed down only through the mom, the egg.

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girl

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Somatic cells

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everything but egg and sperm

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s lot

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Gametes

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egg and sperm

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reproductive cells

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amount of chromosomes

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23 pairs

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46

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Mitosis

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There is one split and leads to two identical cells

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one

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Meiosis

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Two splits with four diffrent cells

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two

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DNA and what it's made of

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DNA- Deoxyribonucleic acid. It is made of nucleotides and base pairs

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ladder

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Nucleotide

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sugar and phosphate

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yum

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Base pairs

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TA
GC

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pairs

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Protein

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3D molecules that serve a variety of functions through their ability to bind to other molecules. Made of aminoacids. DNA tells the amino acids how to form to make usable proteins

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amino acid

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Genes

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a segment of DNA that dictates the sequence of amino acids in a particular protein

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segment

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Gregor Mendel 1822- 1884

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A monk that lived in what is now Czech republic. He was an accomplished scientist. He studoed how physical traits could be expressed in plant hybrids. He used pea plants.

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pea

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Mendel's principle of Segregation

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Genetic information is passed down from parents in pairs. Members of each pair are sperate so that each gamete has one member of each pair. During fertilization chromosomes and gene pairs are reunited.

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long idea

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Locus

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position on the chromosome where the gene occurs

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position

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Allele

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alternate forms of genes that caused variation. They occur at the same locus, they govern the same traits and becuase genes and alleles are diffrent their action ay result in diffrent expressions of that trait.

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expression

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Homozygous

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the same alleles. Like AA or bb

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same

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heterozygous

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two diffrent alleles. Like Tt

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diffrent

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Dominant Alleles

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prevents the expression of a recessive

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dominant

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recessive allele

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triats ot expressed in heterozygous

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can't be in Tt

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Codominance

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expression of two dominant alleles

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pink flowers

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Principle of independent assortment

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the distribution of one pair of alleles into gametes does not influence the distribution of another pair

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independent

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Mendelian traits

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Influenced by one gene, expression is not usually affected by environment and can sometimes be categorized.

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simple

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Polygenic

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Influenced by more then ne gene expression, it may be affected by the environment and distribution of phenotype is continuos with no categories. like skin

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poly

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Gene Flow

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moving genes between populations

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move

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Gene Pool

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All of the genes in the reproductive population.

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pool

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Genetic Drift

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Change in allele frequency due to random factors like mutation. Usually in a small populations,

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drift

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Evolution in modern

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A change in allele frequency from one generation to the next.

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allele