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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 ...
The ability to maintain core body temperature in a normal range mainly by avoiding exposure to environmental temperature extremes. Reptiles, amphibians, fish, and insects are ectothermic animals. Ectothermy is also referred to as being cold blooded. See endothermic.
Industry:Anthropology
The ability to maintain a relatively constant core body temperature regardless of external conditions by using internal physiological means. That is to say, they are homeothermic, or stable in core body temperature, as a result of endothermy. Birds and mammals are endothermic. Endothermy is also referred to as being warm blooded. See ectothermic.
Industry:Anthropology
The ability to live by eating both meat and vegetable foods. See carnivorous and herbivorous.
Industry:Anthropology
The 20th century conception of evolution being caused by a number of complex and often interacting processes. This is essentially a combination of Darwin's concept of natural selection, Mendel's basic genetics, along with the facts and theories of population genetics and molecular biology.
Industry:Anthropology
Terms of Latin origin that are commonly used in the sciences to refer to the plants (flora) and animals (fauna) in an environment.
Industry:Anthropology
Streams of highly penetrating charged particles (composed of free electrons, protons, alpha particles, and a few heavier atom nuclei) that bombard the earth at high speed from outer space. On entering our upper atmosphere, they commonly collide with gas atoms and alter the atomic structures of those atoms.
Industry:Anthropology
Specific micro-habitats in nature to which populations or organisms adapt. They are usually seen in terms of being food getting opportunities in the environment.
Industry:Anthropology
Specialized proteins that relay, amplify and modulate electrical signals between neurons in the brain and nervous system.
Industry:Anthropology
Sounds produced primarily by the throat and mouth. Primate vocalizations include a wide variety of hoots, whistles, grunts, etc.
Industry:Anthropology
