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Bio Anth - Midterm Review
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Anthropology
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02/05/2012

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Anthropology
Definition
a social science that deals with the origins, physical and cultural development, biological characteristics, and social customs and beliefs of humankind
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Biological Anthropology
Definition
branch of anthropology that studies the physical development of the human species
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Sociocultural Anthropology
Definition
studies how contemporary human beings behave in social groups
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Archaeology Anthropology
Definition
the study of human society, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data
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Linguistic Anthropology
Definition
the interdisciplinary study of how language influences social life
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Segregation
Definition
allele pairs separate or segregate during gamete formation, and randomly unite at fertilization.
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Independent Assortment
Definition
The process of random segregation and assortment of chromosomes during meiosis resulting in the production of genetically unique gametes.
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Chromosome
Definition
an organized structure of DNA and protein found in cells
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Gene
Definition
A unit of heredity that is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic
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Dominant
Definition
the allele shows up when in homozygous pairs or heterozygous pairs
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Co-Dominance
Definition
A condition in which the alleles of a gene pair in a heterozygote are fully expressed thereby resulting in offspring with a phenotype that is neither dominant nor recessive.
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Phenogenesis
Definition
differentiation of the phenotype
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mRNA
Definition
a molecule of RNA that encodes a chemical "blueprint" for a protein product by being transcribed from DNA and traveling to the ribosomes
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tRNA
Definition
bridges genetic code from mRNA to the code of amino acids in proteins
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