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Paleoanthropology
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20 amino acids
Cells
64 possible codons
Somatic (body)
recombination
diploid
crossing-over
Gametes (sex)
random assortment
haploid
Blending inheritance
cytoplasm
Mendelian inheritance
mitochondria
Law of Segregation
ribosomes
Law of Independent Assortment
nucleus
Evolution
DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)
gene/allele frequency
organic bases (A, T,
C, G)
Mutation
nucleotide
mutagen
codon
point mutations
protein
frame-shifts
polypeptide chain
additions & deletions
amino acid
substitutions
RNA (ribonucleic acid)
chromosomal mutations
messenger RNA (mRNA)
Genetic drift
transfer RNA (tRNA)
founder effect
gene/allele
Gene Flow
chromosome
admixture
homologous pair
migration
autosomes
Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
sex chromosomes
p+q=1
locus
p2+2pq+q2=1
Gregor Mendel (1822-1884)
Great Chain of Being
phenotype/genotype
Immutability of Species
homozygote/heterozygote
Binomial Nomenclature (Linnaeus)
dominant/recessive
Inheritance of Acquired
codominant
Characteristics (Lamarck)
Punnett square
Uniformitarianism (Lyell)
ABO blood types
Natural Selection
antigen
(Darwin & Wallace)
antibody
Industrial Melanism
Universal Donor
Adaptation
Universal Recipient
Fitness
Neoplatonics (500 A.D.)
Sickle Cell Anemia & Malaria
Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778)
heterozygote advantage
"Father of Taxonomy"
balanced polymorphism
Systema Naturae
Maternal-Fetal Incompatibility
Buffon (1707-1788)
Heterozygote disadvantage
Jean Lamarck (1744-1829)
Rh blood group system
Georges Cuvier (1769-1832)
Selection on complex traits
"Father of Paleontology"
stabilizing selection
Charles Lyell (1797-1875)
directional selection
Principles of Geology
disruptive selection
Thomas Malthus (1766-1834)
Speciation
Essay on Population
reproductive isolating
Alfred Wallace (1823-1913)
mechanism (RIM)
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
allopatric speciation
Galapagos islands
sympatric speciation
On the Origin of
Species
cladogenesis
Ernst Mayr (born 1904)
adaptive radiation
Biological Species
Concept
anagenesis
Extinct Species
Convergent evolution
paleospecies
Parallel evolution
chronospecies
homology/analogy
Microevolution
Phyletic gradualism
Macroevolution
Darwinian evolution
Punctuated equilibrium
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