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Unit 4: AOS 2: Glossary Flashcards

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What is a genotype?

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the genetic make-up or the combination of alleles for a particular gene of an organism

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What is a Phenotype?

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a physical characteristic determined by genotype and environment

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What is Genetic diversity?

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the genetic variability within a spices

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What are adaptations?

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the behavioural, physiological and structural features of an organism that help them survive in an environment

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What is a population?

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a group of individuals of the same species living in the same region at a given time

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What are species?

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a group of organisms that can interbreed, producing fertile and viable offspring

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What is a gene pool?

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the sum total of alleles present in a population of organisms

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What is an Allele frequency?

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the porpution of a particular allele within a population

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What is evolution?

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a change in the allele frequencies if a population over time

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What is a mutation?

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A permanent change in the nucleotide sequence of a section of DNA

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What is a mutagenic agent?

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agents known to cause mutations; e.g some radiation source and chemicals; also called mutagens

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What is point mutation?

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a change to one base in the nucleotide sequence of a section of DNA; includes base substitutions and frameshift mutations

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What is Substitution mutation?

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a type of point mutation that occurs when one nitrogenous base in a gene is replaced with another base; includes silent, missense and nonsense mutations

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What is a silent mutation?

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a mutation where the change in the nucleotide sequence doesn’t change the amino acid that is coded for

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What is a Missenese mutation?

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a mutation in which the base change in the nucleotide sequence of the DNA changes the amino acid that is coded for; a type of substitution point mutation

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What is nonsense mutation?

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a mutation that occurs when the base changes in the nucleotide sequence of the DNA codes for a STOP codon, prematurely halting the production of the polypeptide; a type of substitution point mutation

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What is frameshift mutation?

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a type of point mutation that occurs when one base is inserted into or deleted, causing an incorrect reading of the codons due to a shift in the reading frame

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What is block mutation?

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a type of mutation that affects large sections of DNA, typically containing multiple genes; also called chromosome mutation

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What is Chromosome abnormality?

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mutation that involves a whole chromosome, or a change in the number of chromosomes, which can be identifies using a karyotype; e.g aneuploidy and polyploidy

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What is Karyotype?

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a pictorial representation of chromosomes that allows a geneticist to determine size, banding pattern, shape and number of chromosomes in an individual’s somatic cell; allows the determination of diploid number, gender and chromosomal abnormalities

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What is a Aneuploidy?

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when a cell has one more or one less chromosome than expected, usually due to non-disjunction

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What is Polyploidy?

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a condition in which an organism has more than 2 full sets of chromosomes in its cells; more common in plants than animals

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What is gene flow?

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the exchange of genetic information, specifically alleles, between populations

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What is genetic drift?

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a random change in allele frequency, occurring naturally in every population, due to chance events

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What is the Bottleneck effect

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when a population is drastically reduced to low numbers by a random or chance event and the allele frequencies of the surviving population do not reflect the genetic diversity of the original population

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What is the founder effect?

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when a small sample of a large population moves away to colonise a new area and become isolated; the allele frequencies of the founder population do not represent the genetic diversity of the larger original population

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What are selection pressures?

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the conditions or factors that influence allele frequencies in a population by contributing to the selection of which phenotypes survive in a given environment e.g resources, environmental conditions, predators and disease

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What is natural selection?

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an evolutionary process whereby those individuals in a population that have a particular set of alleles are best suited to the environment and will survive, reproduce and pass on their genetic information to the next generation

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What is selective advantage?

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a trait or phenotype that provides a survival advantage

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What is selective breeding or artificial selection

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a process whereby humans intervene in the breeding of a species to keep desired features in a population that are economically beneficial or aesthetically pleasing, by selecting which organisms are to reproduce

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What is bacterial resistance?

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the ability of bacteria to survive and reproduce in the presence of an antibiotic that has been designed to slow their growth or kill them; arises by mutation and becomes widespread when antibiotics are overused

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Whaat is conjugation?

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the process by which genetic material is exchanged between a donor bacterium; occurs through a tube via direct cell-cell contact; also known as horizontal gene transfer

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What is a pandemic?

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the outbreak of infectious disease that occurs over a wide geographical area, affecting a large number of people

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What is a epidemic?

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the raid spread of an infectious disease to a large number of people within a population

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What is antigenic drift?

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mutations altering viral surface antigens, making the virus unrecognisable to the host’s immune system; can result in a epidemic

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What is antigenic shift?

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reassortment of genes on genomes from different viruses infecting the same host cell, altering viral surface antigens, resulting in novel strains that can cause pandemics

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What does fertile mean?

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able to reproduce

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what does viable mean?

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able to survive

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What does speciation mean?

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the evolutionary process of forming a new species from a pre-existing ancestral species

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what does reproductive isolation mean?

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the inability of two groups of organisms to interbreed successfully; genetic isolation also ensures there is no gene flow between the two populations

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what does allopatric speciation mean?

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a form of speciation that occurs when a geographical barrier physically divides a population; the two sub-populations accumulate so many genetic differences that they become reproductively isolated and are considered different species

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What does sympatric speciation mean?

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a form of speciation that occurs without the involvement of a physical barrier; often occurs in plants as a consequence of polyploidy.

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What does divergent evolution mean?

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where two or more species form from a single ancestral species over time

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What is adaptive radiation?

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the rapid diversification of a large number of related species from a single ancestral species

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What are plate tectonics?

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a scientific theory that focus on the separation of earth’s crust into plates that move across the underlaying mantle

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What is the geological time scale?

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a scale dividing earth’s history into intervals according to the geological and biological events and conditions present at that time

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what does biodiversity mean?

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the variety of plant and animal like in an ecosystem at any given time

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what does period mean?

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a time interval characterised by specific rock layers; periods are subdivisions of eras

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what is an era?

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a subdivision of an eon

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what is a eon?

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a long period of time that consists of at least two eras

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what is a supereon?

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a period of geological time that consists of more than one eon

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What is a cyanobacteria?

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a group of prokaryotic microorganisms that are capable of photosynthesis; recognised as the earliest form of life on Earth

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What is a stromatolite?

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a structure that consists of layered deposits made by cyanobacterial colonies; fossilised stromatolites are among the earliest fossils known

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What is an invertabrate?

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an organism that does not have a backbone

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What is a Cambrian explosion?

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a rapid increase in complex biodiversity within the fossil record that occurred at the beginning of the Cambrian period

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What is a arthropod?

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a type of animal that has no internal backbone, a segmented body and a hard, external covering known as an exoskeleton

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What is a Brachiopod?

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a marine animal with no internal backbone and a hinged upper and lower shell

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What is a chrodate?

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any animal that contain evidence of a spinal cord at some point in its developement

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What is vertebrate?

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having a backbone

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What is a myriapod?

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a subphylum of mostly terrestrial arthropods including millipedes, centipedes and other ‘many-legged’ invertebrates

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What is a tetrapod?

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any vertebrate animals that has four legs or limb-like e.g amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals

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What are amphilbians?

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a class of tetrapods that are semi-terrestrial, with young living in water before moving to land as adults; e.g frogs, toads and salamanders

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What are reptiles?

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a class of air-breathing tetrapods with skin covered in scales, that lay eggs on land

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What is a niche?

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the role that a species plays within a ecosystem?

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What is the background extinction rate?

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the normal extinction rate to be expected to occur over a period of time due to natural environmental factors

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What is a fossil?

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the remains or traces of a pre-existing life form

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What is a fossil record?

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a record of organisms that once lived, through geological time, as documented by fossils

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what is a trace fossil?

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fossilised signs or remains of an organism’s activity, e.g tracks

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What is a petrification?

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the replacement of an organism’s organic matter with minerals, turning it into a stony material.

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What is a mould fossil?

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an impression that forms from the decay of the organism within a rock

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What is a cast fossil?

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fossil formed when an organism decays, leaving an impression which fills, with minerals, resulting in a 3D object of the organism’s external surface

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What is a sedimentary rock?

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a type of rock that is formed from the accumulation of sediment into layers

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What is a metamorphic rock?

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a type of rock that arises from the transforming of existing rocks

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What is absolute dating?

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determines the actual age of specimen being analysed

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What is relative dating?

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determines the age of a specimen by comparing its placement with that of other fossils or the rock layers it is found in

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What is a index fossil?

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a fossil that is used ti date and correlate the strata within which it is found

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What is a half-life?

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the time taken for 50% of an unstable parent isotope to decay into its corresponding stable daughter isotope

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What is a homologous structure?

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a structure within a group of species that performs a different function yet has the same underlying structure

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What is a divergent evolution?

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where two or more species form from a single ancestral species over time

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What is a vestigial structure?

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a structure within an organism that is no longer functional but served a purpose in a common ancestor

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What is a primate?

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the order of consisting all current and extinct humans, apes, and monkeys, characterised by having dextrose hands with opposable thumbs and a relatively large and developed brain

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What is molecular homology?

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the analysis of DNA and amino acid sequences as evidence of evolutionary relationships

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What is a phylogeny?

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a branch of service that studies the evolutionary relationships between a group of species

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What is a Phylogenetic tree?

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a branching diagram used to represent the evolutionary relationships between species

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What is Taxonomy?

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the process of identifying, naming and grouping organisms

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What is a molecular phylogency?

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comparison of nucleotide sequence of genes and amino acid sequence of proteins, from which evolutionary relationships can be inferred

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What is a Hominoid?

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the superfamily consisting of all current and extinct humans and apes

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What is a Hominin?

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the subfamily consisting of all current and extinct bipedal primates

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What does Bipedal mean?

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able to walk on two legs or upright

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what is a genus?

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a group of related organisms that share a recent common ancestor

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What is a species?

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a group of organisms that can interbreed, producing fertile and viable offspring

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What does Foramen magnum mean?

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Hole in the base of the skull through which the spinal cord enters/exists the skull

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What is the molecular clock?

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using the predicted mutation rate of DNA (or amino acid) sequences to determine the approximate time at which two species diverged

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What does interbreed mean?

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mate with an organism of another species (sometimes used between different genetic groups or population)

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What does Bipedalism mean?

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the characteristic of being bipedal, i.e walking upright on two legs

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What does connection to country mean?

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the relationship between people and their indigenous land or environment

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What does Putative mean?

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a term used to describe something that is expected or assumed to have existed, without any current direct proof

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What is Structural morphology?

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the study of an organism’s features and form to determine the evolutionary relationship of species

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