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Founded in 1946, Palomar College is a public two-year community college in the city of San Marcos, located in north San Diego County, California. Palomar offers over 300 associate degree, certificate programs and is designated by the U.S. Department of Education as an Hispanic-Serving Institution ...
Someone who is related as a result of being a child of one's uncle or aunt.
Industry:Anthropology
Someone who has type O blood. Such people lack antigens for the ABO blood system. As a result, their blood will not be agglutinated when it is transfused into people with any other ABO type.
Industry:Anthropology
Someone who has type AB blood. Such people do not produce antibodies for the ABO blood system. As a result, they can receive transfusions from people with any ABO type without agglutinating it.
Industry:Anthropology
Small, dense bodies outside of a cell nucleus that contract and become visible early in mitosis and meiosis when the nuclear membrane breaks down. Spindle fibers eventually emanate from each centriole and connect to the centromeres of chromosomes.
Industry:Anthropology
Small structures usually near the surface of endoplasmic reticula in the cytoplasm of cells. Ribosomes are the sites where proteins are assembled. Each ribosome is composed of 3 RNA strands and 54 proteins woven into 2 separate, but entangled lumps.
Industry:Anthropology
Small rod-like structures in the cytoplasm that produce fuel for the cell in the form of adenosine triphosphate (ATP). A small amount of DNA in a circular looping chromosome is located in mitochondria. This DNA is normally inherited only from mothers and is distinct from DNA that makes up the chromosomes within the cell nucleus.
Industry:Anthropology
Small changes in a population's gene pool occurring over a few generations. The accumulation of microevolutionary changes can result in macroevolution.
Industry:Anthropology
Small carvings of women that could fit into the hand made by the Cro-Magnon people. They were not portraits but rather faceless idealized representations of well fed, healthy, usually pregnant women with large buttocks. Because of these characteristics, they are thought by most paleoanthropologists to be ritual objects symbolizing female fertility. Many of these stylized carvings are reminiscent of modern abstract art. Venus figurines were made from 27,000 years ago down to the end of the last ice age 10,000 years ago.
Industry:Anthropology
Similar anatomical structures in different species that were not present in their common ancestor. Homoplasies are also referred to as homoplastic structures or features. Homoplasies can be due to parallelism, convergence, or even chance.
Industry:Anthropology
Sex-determining region Y gene. A gene on the Y chromosome which, if present and functioning, causes the undifferentiated sex organs of an animal embryo to become testes. These then produce the hormone testosterone which, in turn, causes the development of masculine physical traits.
Industry:Anthropology
