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2414 Anthro Test 1
Flash cards for the first Anthro test at Texas State
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
09/30/2009

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Robert Darwin
Definition
Charles Darwin's father
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John Stevens Henslow
Definition
Charles Darwin's tutor at Cambridge
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Robert FitzRoy
Definition
Requested a "gentleman companion"
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Gregor Mendel
Definition
Principle of independent assortment
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Thomas Malthus
Definition
Wrote "An Essay on the Principle of Population"
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Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
Definition
Inheritence of acquired traits
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Willi Hennig
Definition
Wrote "Phylogenetic Systematics"
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Charles Darwin
Definition
Wrote "Voyage of the Beagle"
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Charles Lyell
Definition
Uniformitarianism, and the father of Geology
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Theodosius Dobzhanksy
Definition
Wrote "Genetics and the Origin of Species"
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Carolus Linneaus
Definition
Father of Taxonomy
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Josiah Wedgewood
Definition
Darwin's maternal grandfather
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Georges Cuvier
Definition
Catastrophism
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During cladogenesis, _______ counter-acts the effects of mutation, natural selection, and genetic drift.
Definition
Gene Flow
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Charles Darwin was a ________.
Definition
Gradualist
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Mendel used cross-fertilization to produce ___________.
Definition
the first filial generation
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In Mendel's experiments, recessive traits appeared to "skip" which generation?
Definition
the first filial generation
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The taxonomic name for a human is __________.
Definition
Homo sapiens (ITALICIZED)
Term
A population is more likely to undergo speciation if it is _________.
Definition
Small and under strong selection pressure
Term
Catastrophism and Uniformitarianism
Definition
19th Century theories concerning the tempo and mode of geological change
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Punctuated equilibrium and Phyletic gradualism
Definition
20th century theories concerning the tempo and mode of evolutionary change
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Theistic Evolution
Definition
Evolution is God's mechanism for creation
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Punctuated equilibrium
Definition
"Non-Darwinian" evolution
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65 mya
Definition
Extinction of the dinosaurs
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3.5 bya
Definition
Earliest life on Earth
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200 kya
Definition
First modern humans
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20 kya
Definition
Humans remain as only living species of Homo
Term
Gametes are formed during the process of mitosis (T or F)
Definition
False. Meiosis.
Term
The mechanisms underlying microevolution and macroevolution are the same (T or F)
Definition
True.
Term
The Ussher-Lightfoot date for the beginning of the Earth is 4004 BC (T or F)
Definition
True
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Males have nipples because they once assisted females in breast feeding (T or F)
Definition
False
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A gene is a DNA sequence that codes for a polypeptide chain (T or F)
Definition
True
Term
We can expect that humans will evolve to tolerate air pollution (T or F)
Definition
False
Term
People with Down's syndrome are missing a chromosome (T or F)
Definition
False. They have an extra chromosome
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Humans brains stoppped getting larger 50,000 years ago (T or F)
Definition
True
Term
Evolution is teleological (T or F)
Definition
True. (Def. of teleological: always moving toward a goal)
Term
The population ________ (can/cannot) survive without variation.
Definition
Cannot
Term
The earliest life appeared _____ BYA
Definition
3.5
Term
Pleiotrophic Effect
Definition
1 gene effects many traits
Term
Polytrophic Effect
Definition
many genes effect one trait
Term
Locus
Definition
The name that genes are also referred to as
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The average human brain weighs ________ grams.
Definition
1350 grams
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Anagenesis
Definition
Gradual change through time
Term
Cladogenesis
Definition
splitting off to create a new species
Term
There are 2 ways to pass on genes:
1. _______________
2. _______________
Definition
1. Have children
2. Your relatives have children
Term
Cost < Genetic Relativeness x Benefit
Definition
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Homology
Definition
similarity due to common descent
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Homoplasy
Definition
due to convergent evolution, no common ancestry involved. Independent adaption due to similar environment.
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