PP 4 Genes, Pops, & Human Variation

Question 1

What is biodiversity?

Answer 1

Variety of life in an environment/ecosystem

Question 2

What is Paleolithic?

Answer 2

relating to or denoting the early phase of the Stone Age, lasting about 2.5 million years, when primitive stone implements were used.

Question 3

What is important about the Paleolithic era?

Answer 3

We saw that recurrent infectious diseases would stay while non recurrent ones would die due to everyone getting infected.

Question 4

What is zoonoses?

Answer 4

pathogens passed from nonhumans to humans

Question 5

When urbanized agriculture came around what else came with it?

Answer 5

Water & sewage-borne diseases: Dysentery & E. coli, Cholera, Typhoid,
TB, staph/strep, typhoid, pathogens proliferated
Plague: bacterial Yersinia pestis from infected fleas

Question 6

What is anoxia?

Answer 6

Oxygen absent

Question 7

What is hypoxemia?

Answer 7

Low blood oxygen

Question 8

What is Tachycardia?

Answer 8

rapid heart rate

Question 9

What is hypoxia?

Answer 9

Low pressure, fewer oxygen molecules in the air.

Question 10

What makes the people in the andes important?

Answer 10

They had a barrel chest to transfer oxygen more efficiently

Question 11

What are Bergman and Allen rules?

Answer 11

Those living closer equator taller/ lean er
Those living closer poles shorter/stouter
Evolved responses to dissipate/conserve body heat
Developmental responses also
Bergman: B = Body: Size increases as temperature decreases
Allan: A = Arms/Appendages: Shorter/Thicker with cold
More linear/thin in hot
Cold-adapted people: Large heart for body size