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1st Midterm Flashcards

1
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Nanook is a food producer.

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False; He’s a hunter-gatherer

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Nomadic

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*go from one place to another

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Women Hunters

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  • are good, but have to give birth and take care of kids

* losing a male hunter is better than losing a woman because they reproduce

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4
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Hunter-Gatherers

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*Constant feast and family causes health issues

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5
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Linguistics

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*language changes over time

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Culture

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*expressed w/ language

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Archeologists

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*studying living peoples, or peoples of the past

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Culture-Bound

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*putting your culture on hold and trying to mesh into another

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Ethnography

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*personal observations (first hand)

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Unaltered Fossil

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*hasn’t changed significantly

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Fossil Locality

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*where fossils are found

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Artifact

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*shaped/fashioned by humans

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Fossil

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*impression or trace of humans

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Altered Fossil

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*altered by replacement over time

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15
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Soil Marks

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*stains that show up on the surface (mountains)

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Grid System

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*record/control data

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17
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Flotation

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*fine particles (using soil + water)

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18
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Stratified

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*layered

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19
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Site

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*a place where human activity occurred

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20
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Datum Point

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  • fixed reference point

* measure from datum point

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21
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Technology

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*stone age use stone tools, comparing different stages of our development

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22
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Relative

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*one object is older or younger relative to another

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23
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Absolute

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*give number/date (writing)

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Stratigraphy

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*most recent layers are on top if no geological change: layers

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25
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Radiocarbon Dating (C-14)

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  • w/in 50,000 years, organic material
  • measure amount of C14 left in material
  • 15 beta particles/minute
  • 1/2 life= 5730 years
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Flourine

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  • dating technique based on bones
  • amount of fluorine picked up by bone from ground water
  • *specific to area
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27
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Dendrochronology

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  • “tree time”

* 5,000 years and area specific

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28
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Palynology

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  • look at pollens
  • virtually indestructible determine where they came from
  • *no pollen= older
29
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Potassium Argon (K-Ar)

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  • has 1/2 life (1.3 billion years)

* volcanic rock

30
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Amino Acid Racemization

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  • ration of amino acids
  • the way they bend (left or right)
  • found in eggs 40,000-180,000
31
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Electron Spin Resonance

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  • about 200,000 years

* measures electrons in bones

32
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Taphonomy

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  • anything from death to discovery and vice versa

* *process

33
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Baobob Tree

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*uses Carbon 14 not dendrochronology

34
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Dating Techniques

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*don’t tell age

35
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Primate Order

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*shared common ancestry

36
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Genes

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*responsible for traits

37
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DNA

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*strand of genes

38
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Chromosome

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*where DNA is stored in nucleus

39
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Alleles

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*variations/alternate forms of genes

40
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Mitosis

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  • cellular division
  • offspring cells replicate parents
  • 23 pairs
41
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Meiosis

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  • sex cell division

* 23 singles and 4 doubles

42
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Homozygous

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*chromosome pair w/ same alleles

43
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Heterozygous

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*chromosome pair w/ different alleles

44
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Dominant

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*masks presence of recessiveness

45
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Recessive

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*masked by dominant

46
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Phenotype

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*physical observable appearance

47
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Genotype

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*genetic make-up

48
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Polygenetic Inheritance

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*2 or more genes working together (skin color)

49
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Gene Pool

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*all the genes

50
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Evolution

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*change over time

51
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Mutation

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  • the source of new genetic variation

* (alteration of a gene that produces a new allele)

52
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Genetic Drift

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*chance change in allele frequency

53
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Genetic Flow

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*consistent travel of genes from 1 group to another

54
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Natural Selection

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  • reproductive success

* passing gene off to offspring

55
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Directional Selection

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*change in a population’s gene pool over time

56
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Stabilizing Selection

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*as long as everything is stable, they stay the same

57
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Mutagens

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*the ability to cause a mutation

58
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Radiation

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*has ability to cause mutations

59
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Chemicals

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*can be mutagenic

antibiotics

60
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Temp Changes

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*potential to cause mutations

61
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Spontaneous

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*randomly happen

62
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Adaptation

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*ability to change

63
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Divergent Evolution

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*branch off

64
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Banobos

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  • have alpha female

* have sex all the time

65
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Chimpanzee

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*have alpha male

66
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Convergent Evolution

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*adapted

67
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Species

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*population stable of integrating

68
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Race

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*subpopulation of species, differing in some alleles from other people

69
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Isolating Mechanisms

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  • barriers to having offspring

* (culture, geography, time)

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