ANT 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Ploidy, Germ Cell, Cell Nucleus
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Acclimatization: the short term process of an organism adjusting to chronic change in its environment (i. e. within one organism"s lifetime). Amino acid: one of a class of 20 molecules that are combined to form proteins in living things. Anticodon: a complementary three-nucleotide site on the trna that recognizes and binds to a specific codon on the mrna during protein synthesis. Average: the middle or most common value in a set of data. Bipedal locomotion: moving upright using two legs. Chromosome: double-stranded dna molecule in nucleus of eukaryotic cells that carries genes and functions in the transmission of hereditary information. Codon: genetic information encoded in a sequence of three nucleotides. Continuous variation: phenotypic variation that falls along a continuum rather than in discrete units or categories (e. g. body mass in modern humans). Cytoplasm: internal fluid (called cytosol), dissolved materials, and cellular organelles in a cell, except for the nucleus. The cytoplasm is the primary site for chemical activity in the cell.
