1) What does it mean when we say that humans are biocultural organisms? Describe what that term means and use an example to illustrate your point. Humans are biocultural organisms due to our ability to adapt and create culture. Humans all have the same make up of internal organs and external limbs but that doesn’t make us all the same. Culture shapes the world and how it has been brought up since the beginning. We are all very different in our own ways, weather it is color of skin, height, weight, or gender. Being social domesticated by numerous ways of life has made us all different and some of us the same, but being a biocultural race has structured how we live today. Over time our biological make up has become more adaptive and recessive
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This is where a diploid organism one that has a double-set of chromosomes, produces haploid cells for purposes of reproduction. Those haploid cells are called gametes. Gametes can combine with the haploid cells of other individuals to make a new diploid individual. The evolutionary importance of this, is that the new individual contains a brand new set of genetic material different from either of its parents. This increases the odds, in a population, that some individuals may have some new genetic combinations that produce some small improvement. We are creating humans that have stronger immune systems and can survive for longer periods of time. Creating vaccines and other types of antibiotics also help shape the genetic material for future generations. Giving on person a new set of genetic material can be passed down to their offspring, which would find another human with the same set of new material, the two children would mate and then create a final combination of the new set of genetic material. Thus making a new generation of humans that have biological structures that are changed and adapted for better survival. Over time evolution has made a lot of different species off of breeding two different species together. Horses have and donkeys have been made into Mules, and even other house pets have been created through advancing genetic makeup. For example, thousands of years ago there were no domestic dogs and cats. We as a
This is where a diploid organism one that has a double-set of chromosomes, produces haploid cells for purposes of reproduction. Those haploid cells are called gametes. Gametes can combine with the haploid cells of other individuals to make a new diploid individual. The evolutionary importance of this, is that the new individual contains a brand new set of genetic material different from either of its parents. This increases the odds, in a population, that some individuals may have some new genetic combinations that produce some small improvement. We are creating humans that have stronger immune systems and can survive for longer periods of time. Creating vaccines and other types of antibiotics also help shape the genetic material for future generations. Giving on person a new set of genetic material can be passed down to their offspring, which would find another human with the same set of new material, the two children would mate and then create a final combination of the new set of genetic material. Thus making a new generation of humans that have biological structures that are changed and adapted for better survival. Over time evolution has made a lot of different species off of breeding two different species together. Horses have and donkeys have been made into Mules, and even other house pets have been created through advancing genetic makeup. For example, thousands of years ago there were no domestic dogs and cats. We as a