Good To Know Stuff

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Paleo

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Meaning ancient

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Paleontology

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The study of fossils.

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Asymmetrical

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Not balanced, lopsided

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Bilateral

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Having 2 of something. Like having bilateral hearing or legs.

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Cambrian

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Referring to the paleozoic time period. 500 million years ago. When algae and marine invertebrates were the predominant life forms.

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Basin

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A natural depression into the earth's surface. Typically containing water. Like the Transvaal Shales Basin is one of the 3 Transvaal supergroup.

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Craton

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A large, stable block of the earth's crust that forms the nucleus of a continent. For example the Kaapvaal Craton located in South Africa or the Pilbara Craton of western Australia.

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These craton's are the only one's left with pristine earth crust that date back 500-600 billion year's ago.

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Stratigraphic Unit

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Is a volume of rock of identifiable origin and relative age range that is defined by the distinctive and dominant, easily mapped and recognizable petrographic, lithologic or paleontologic features that characterize it.

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Lithologic = description of a rock's physical characteristics such as texture, colour, composition.

Paleontologic = Referring to the rocks evolution and interactions and environments.

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Petrographic

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The microscopic details of a rock. This used to be considered lithologic.

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The Transvaal Supergroup

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Is a stratigraphic unit in northern South Africa and southern Botswana situated on the Kaapvaal Craton dating back 2,500 million years ago. It is comprised of 3 basins. One is the Transvaal basin. Two is the Griqualand basin. And three is the Kanye basin.

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Sumer

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Was the first Urban civilization in southern mesopotamia which is modern day Iraq.

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Annotate

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Giving notes to a document or a text or diagram.

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Pecuniary (adjective)

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Of or relating to money.

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Tahiti Bird

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A French Polynesian bird.

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Symbiosis

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Interaction between two different organism living in close physical association with each other typically to each other's advantage.

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Apprehensive

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Anxious or fearful that something bad will happen.

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Liaison

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Communication or cooperation that works in close working relationship between people or organizations.

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Pan troglodyte

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Common chimpanzee

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Taxanomy

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Is the science of defining biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics and giving names to those groups.

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Phylum

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A taxonomic group.

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Osteology

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The study of bone structure.

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Bipdeal

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Using only two legs for walking

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Dimorphisms (adjective)

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Occurring in or representing two forms

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Gestation

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The process of being carried in the womb between pregnancy and birth

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Estrus

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A recurring period of sexual receptivity of fertility in female mammals; heat

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Parietal Lobe

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Either of the paired lobes in the brain at the top of the head, including areas concerned with the reception and correlation of sensory information.

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Foramen (Anatomy)

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An opening or hole in the bone.

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Iliac crest

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The superior wall of the pelvis.

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Trochanter

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The upper part of the thigh bone.

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Zygomatic

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The cheek bone.

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Atavistic

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Relating to or characterized by reversion to something ancient or ancestral.

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Diurnal

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Of or during the day.

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Respiration

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The act of breathing

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Heme

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an iron-containing compound of the porphyrin class that forms the nonprotein part of hemoglobin and some other biological molecules.

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Cytochrome

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any of a number of compounds consisting of heme bonded to a protein. Cytochromes function as electron transfer agents in many metabolic pathways, especially cellular respiration.

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Cellulose

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an insoluble substance that is the main constituent of plant cell walls and of vegetable fibers such as cotton. It is a polysaccharide consisting of chains of glucose monomers.

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Chlorophyll

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a green pigment, present in all green plants and in cyanobacteria, responsible for the absorption of light to provide energy for photosynthesis. Its molecule contains a magnesium atom held in a porphyrin ring.

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Porphyrins

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any of a class of pigments (including heme and chlorophyll) whose molecules contain a flat ring of four linked heterocyclic groups, sometimes with a central metal atom.

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Insoluable

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Impossible to dissolve (of a substance]

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Hemoglobin

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a red protein responsible for transporting oxygen in the blood of vertebrates. Its molecule comprises four subunits, each containing an iron atom bound to a heme group

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Rotunda

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A big round building or room especially with a dome

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Cladistics

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a method of classification of animals and plants according to the proportion of measurable characteristics that they have in common. It is assumed that the higher the proportion of characteristics that two organisms share, the more recently they diverged from a common ancestor

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Resplendent

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attractive and impressive through being richly colorful or sumptuous

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Raffish

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unconventional and slightly disreputable, especially in an attractive manner

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Tapestry

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A picture woven into cloth. It can hang from a wall or it can be a rug. Usually has intricate patterns and or designs.

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Antiquated

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Outdated.

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Insoluble

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Incapable of being dissolved

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Reversion

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A return to a previous state, practice, or belief.

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Proportion

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noun1. a part, share, or number considered in comparative relation to a whole.

Verb

2. adjust or regulate (something) so that it has a particular or suitable relationship to something else.

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Virtue

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behavior showing high moral standards

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Sumptuous

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Something rich and expensive looking

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Pigment

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the natural coloring matter of animal or plant tissue.

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Unconventional

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not based on or conforming to what is generally done or believed

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Acquiescence

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The reluctant acceptance of something without protest.

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Reluctant

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Hesitant, unwilling