ant 101 nau exam 1
Holistic Approach - the practice of drawing on all sub-disciplines of anthropology as well as other
disciplines to attempt to answer questions about humans.
Binomial Nomenclature - is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a
name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based
on words from other languages.
Adaptation - change in response to environmental challenges.
Allele - a variant sequence of nucleotides in a gene; a form of a gene.
Amino acid/Polypeptide - a string of amino acids that fold in on itself and become a protein.
Anticodon - three-nucleotide sequence on a tRNA molecule that helps match the appropriate
amino acid with a specific mRna codon.
Archaeology - the study of patterns of behavior and the material records of humans who lived in
the past.
Assortative Mating - mate selection based on similarity (positive assortative) or differences
(negative assortative) in traits.
Autosome - carry genetic information that governs all characteristics except sex.
Bioarchaeology - the study of the human biological component evident in the archaeological
record.
, Biological Anthropology - the study of the biological and bio-cultural facts of human and their
relatives.
Biological Species - a group of interbreeding natural populations that are re-productively isolated
from other such groups.
Bishop James Ussher - said that the earth was about 6000 years old.
Bottleneck - dramatic reduction of a population such that the genetic diversity in the population is
substantially curtailed.
Carolus Linnaeus - Father of taxonomy.
Carrier/CoDominance - heterozgous
Catastrophism - the belief that great catastrophes regularly wipe out much of life on earth.
Charles Lyell - Studied geologic strata confirming uniformitarianism.
Chromosomes - complex structures that house the supercoiled DNA in the nucleus.
Codon - a three-nucleotide sequence in which the DNA's triple code is written onto the mRNA.
Comparative Approach - the practice of comparing features across entities/cultures/organisms to
elucidate similarities and differences.
Comte de Buffon - Said that Species must have both improved and degenerated after creation
Crossing-Over - homologous, or sister, chromosomes exchange segments.
Holistic Approach - the practice of drawing on all sub-disciplines of anthropology as well as other
disciplines to attempt to answer questions about humans.
Binomial Nomenclature - is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a
name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based
on words from other languages.
Adaptation - change in response to environmental challenges.
Allele - a variant sequence of nucleotides in a gene; a form of a gene.
Amino acid/Polypeptide - a string of amino acids that fold in on itself and become a protein.
Anticodon - three-nucleotide sequence on a tRNA molecule that helps match the appropriate
amino acid with a specific mRna codon.
Archaeology - the study of patterns of behavior and the material records of humans who lived in
the past.
Assortative Mating - mate selection based on similarity (positive assortative) or differences
(negative assortative) in traits.
Autosome - carry genetic information that governs all characteristics except sex.
Bioarchaeology - the study of the human biological component evident in the archaeological
record.
, Biological Anthropology - the study of the biological and bio-cultural facts of human and their
relatives.
Biological Species - a group of interbreeding natural populations that are re-productively isolated
from other such groups.
Bishop James Ussher - said that the earth was about 6000 years old.
Bottleneck - dramatic reduction of a population such that the genetic diversity in the population is
substantially curtailed.
Carolus Linnaeus - Father of taxonomy.
Carrier/CoDominance - heterozgous
Catastrophism - the belief that great catastrophes regularly wipe out much of life on earth.
Charles Lyell - Studied geologic strata confirming uniformitarianism.
Chromosomes - complex structures that house the supercoiled DNA in the nucleus.
Codon - a three-nucleotide sequence in which the DNA's triple code is written onto the mRNA.
Comparative Approach - the practice of comparing features across entities/cultures/organisms to
elucidate similarities and differences.
Comte de Buffon - Said that Species must have both improved and degenerated after creation
Crossing-Over - homologous, or sister, chromosomes exchange segments.
