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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 ...
Electromagnetic energy that is given off by an object. Our bodies lose heat by radiation. More specifically, we give off infrared radiation like the heat from a light bulb.
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Eating only vegetable foods. Animals that have this sort of diet are herbivores or vegetarians. See carnivorous and omnivorous.
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Eating only meat. Animals that have this sort of diet are carnivores. See herbivorous and omnivorous.
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DNA located in the mitochondria. Since it is normally inherited only from mothers, an offspring's mtDNA will be identical to its mother's, unless a mutation has occurred.
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Early primate-like mammals that evolved 65-60 million years ago, shortly after the end of the last dinosaurs.
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DNA base pairs that code for proteins and, therefore, are part of genes. Only 1. 2-1. 5% of DNA consists of exons. See introns.
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Defective developments of the brain or spinal cord. By the mid embryonic stage (5 weeks in humans), a neural tube extends from the top of the head to the lower end of the spinal column. Later, this tube becomes the brain and spinal chord. Spina bifida and anencephaly are examples of neural tube defects.
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Defective alleles that have segments which are doubled in their transmission from generation to generation. In the case of genetically inherited diseases, the result is increasingly severe symptoms each generation. The myotonic form of muscular dystrophy is an example. Stuttering alleles are also known as unstable alleles.
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Dating methods based on the fact that the magnetic north pole wanders around the rotational north pole and has repeatedly reversed position with the magnetic south pole at irregular intervals in the past. There are permanent records of these movements in the form of thermoremanent magnetism found in burned clay and rock as well as geological deposits of volcanic origin. Archaeomagnetic dating is the term generally used for dating based on the wandering of the magnetic north pole around the rotational north pole over the last 10,000 years or so. Geomagnetic reversal time scale (GRTS) dating and geomagnetic polarity time scale (GPTS) dating are terms applied to the method based on the much longer term reversals of the magnetic poles. The two related paleomagnetic dating methods have been considered by some researchers to be chronometric and calibrated relative by others.
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