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29 Cards in this Set
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what kingdom do we belong to?
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Animilia
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what phylum to we belong to?
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Chordata
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what class do we belong to?
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Mammalian
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what order do we belong to?
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Primate
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what family do we belong to?
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Hominidea
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what genius do we belong to?
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homo
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what species do we belong to?
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sapien
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what are examples of mega primates?
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largest brains, longest leg limbs, flat faced, sexual dimorphism, longest period of dependency.
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wallace
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line boundary that seperates zoogeographical regions between asia and australia. biogeography where things look the way they do because of location.
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watson crick franklin
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double helix structure of DNA
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Linnaeus
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animals look similar so they get grouped together, based off of phenotypes.
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Usher
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calculated the creation of Earth by assigning an average life span to biblical people and tracing back genesis.
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Lamark
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inheritence of acquired characteristics.
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Mendel
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traits are passed on by individual partials called genes. punnett square!
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what did Lamark get right about evolution?
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environmental change, physiological change in an organism, characteristics are inherited.
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what is a paradigm?
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set of assumptions or concepts that constitute a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them.
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what is the Great Chain of Being?
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create order and assign meaning. it ranks life from most perfect and complex to the least perfect and complex.
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what is a phenotype?
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the outward manifestation of genetic make up.
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what is a genotype?
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the genetic makeup of an individual.
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what is a gamete?
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a cell that fuses with another gamete during fertilization.
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what is a zygote?
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when two gametes fuse together.
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what is miosis?
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process of reductional division in which the number of chromosomes per gamete is cut in half.
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what is sexual dimorphism?
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where male and female look very different from one another.
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what is prehensile grrip?
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the ability to grip things with your hand.
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what is stereoscopic vision?
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depth perception.
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what is prognithism?
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having a protruding jaw.
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gregarious
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social; live in groups with kinship and heirarchy.
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opposable thumb
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allow a person to grasp an object.
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story of evolution
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increase in frequency of pesticide resistance in mosquitoes after spraying with DDT. those with pesticide resilience live, while others don't and die off.
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