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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 ...
Having the same allele at the same locus on both members of a pair of homologous chromosomes. Homozygous also refers to a genotype consisting of two identical alleles of a gene for a particular trait. An individual may be homozygous dominant (AA) or homozygous recessive (aa). Individuals who are homozygous for a trait are referred to as homozygotes. See heterozygous.
Industry:Anthropology
Having only one mate at a time. Monogamy is rare among nonhuman primates but common among humans.
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Having five digits on the end of feet and hands. This trait is characteristic of all primates except for the spider monkey which has five toes on each foot but only four fingers on each hand. Pentadactylism is an ancient mammalian trait that was inherited from their reptile ancestors.
Industry:Anthropology
Having a four footed means of locomotion. Humans are bipedal all other primates are primarily quadrupedal.
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Hairless, callused areas on either side of the rump of monkeys in the Old World monkey subfamily Cercopithecinae (macaques, baboons, etc. ) and the small apes of Asia.
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Gregor Mendel's idea that the characteristics of parents are passed on to descendants unchanged as units. In other words, the hereditary material of any organism is made up of discrete units (now called genes).
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Gregor Mendel's second principle of genetic inheritance. It states that different pairs of genes are passed to offspring independently so that new combinations of genes, present in neither parent, are possible. In other words, the distribution of one pair of alleles does not influence the distribution of another pair. The genes controlling different traits are inherited independently of one another.
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Gregor Mendel's first principle of genetic inheritance. It states that, for any particular trait, the pair of genes of each parent separate (during the formation of sex cells) and only one gene from each parent passes on to an offspring. In other words, genes occur in pairs (because chromosomes occur in pairs). During gamete production, the members of each gene pair separate, so that each gamete contains one member of each pair. During fertilization, the full number of chromosomes is restored, and members of gene pairs are reunited.
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Graceful, slender, and delicate. This 17th century English term is used to describe the body characteristics (especially bones) of the early australopithecines and the earliest humans.
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