Exam 2

Question 1

What is morphology

Answer 1

Shape and size of a body part

Question 2

Primitive traits

Answer 2

Traits or a combination of traits present in an ancestral form

Question 3

Dervived traits

Answer 3

• evolved for a particular function

- not present in ancestors

Question 4

Why are primates unique

Answer 4

specialized morphology traits

Question 5

Arboreal adaptation

Answer 5

Primates live in trees and are good at it

Question 6

4 traits of Arboreal adaptation

Answer 6

• Versatile skeletal structure
• Enchanced touch
• Enhanced vision
• reduced reliance on smell/hearing

Question 7

what do you need to be considered a primate

Answer 7

solid unbroken ring around the eye

Question 8

versatile skeletal structure

Answer 8

flexible, helps prehensility (grasping), erect posture, opposable thumbs,

Question 9

what is dietary plasticity

Answer 9

primates eat a highly varied diet and there teeth reflect this adaptive versatility

Question 10

2133

Answer 10

ALL the P’s

all the monkeys from central and south America

Question 11

2123

Answer 11

Anything that doesnt start with P

-humans, cattarhines, apes same amount of teeth

Question 12

parental investment

Answer 12

primate parents provide prolonged care for fewer but smarter, more socially complex and long lives offsprings

Question 13

what does parental investment provide

Answer 13

offsprings with food, teaching them about social rules and social behaviors, primates increase chance of surviving

Question 14

what are Paleocene

Answer 14

65-55 MYA

Proto primates