ANTH 1001 : Exam 1
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1/20/2012 4:37:00 pm: relationship between biology and culture, nature vs. nurture, what is in our genes vs. what we learn from society, holistic, relating to or concerning the entire system rather than the parts, ex. Staphylococcus aurous (mrsa: misuse of antibiotics causes health problems, tb called consumption, 50 million world wide diagnosed with mdr tb resistant, mrsa found in hospitals resistant variation. Test question: fitness in evolutionary context is about getting your genes into the future (uncle bob) Dominant- describes allele expressed in the presence of another different allele. Recessive- describing an allele that is not expressed in the presence of another different allele. Locus-location of an allele on a chromosome, loci". Physical appearance of allele: law of independent assortment. Polygenic inheritance: more than 1 locus, polygenic traits, continuous in expression range of variation, ex: melanin production, multiple loci contribute, dominant alleles, environmental influence, pleiotropic, one gene impacting multiple traits.
