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    Ophidiophobia: The abnormal fear of snakes

    Lateral Undulation: Waves of lateral bending through the body that propel the snake forward.

    Trichromatic Vision: Three color receptors in the eye that allow the animal to see a wider spectrum of colors.

    Electroencephalogram: A non-invasive method of measuring electrical activity in the brain.


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    Evolutionary Mechanisms: Forces that change the frequency of genes in populations.

    Natural Selection: The process whereby traits that make animals more likely to survive and reproduce take hold in a population.

    Vestigiality: The process by which a genetically-determined structure loses some or all of its functionality.

    Genetic Drift: A change in the frequency of an allele due to random sampling.


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    Red blood cells (RBCs), also called erythrocytes, are the most common type of blood cell and the vertebrate's principal means of delivering oxygen

    Hemoglobin also spelled haemoglobin and abbreviated Hb or Hgb, is the iron-containing oxygen-transport metalloprotein in the red blood cells of all vertebrates as well as the tissues of some invertebrates.

    Bilirubin is a yellow compound that occurs in the normal catabolic pathway that breaks down heme in vertebrates.

    Urobilinogen is a colourless by-product of bilirubin reduction. It is formed in the intestines by bacterial action on bilirubin. About half of the urobilinogen formed is reabsorbed and taken up via the portal vein to the liver, enters circulation and is excreted by the kidney.

    Urobilin or urochrome is the chemical primarily responsible for the yellow color of urine.

    Stercobilin is the chemical responsible for the brown color of human feces.


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    Organ transplantation - surgically transferring an organ from one person into another.

    Xenotransplantation - transplanting organs between members of different species.

    Transplant rejection - when the organ recipient’s immune system destroys transplanted tissue.

    Pluripotent stem cells - embryonic cells that can give rise to all the different types of cells that make up the body.

    CRISPR - a genome editing tool that allows scientists to modify genes in living cells.


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    Reindeer - the smaller, (semi-)domesticated version/subspecies of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus)

    Caribou - the wild, north American subspecies of Rangifer tarandus (Rangifer tarandus granti and others).

    Wild reindeer - the wild, European/Asian subspecies of Rangifer tarandus.

    Herding - bringing animals together into a group, maintaining the group, and moving the group from place to place

    Rain-on-snow event - exactly what it sounds like! Rain that falls on snow, freezes into a thick layer of impenetrable ice over pastures, and causes mass starvation of reindeer (or caribou).


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    Foraminifera: a class of single-celled marine organisms – protists, not animals – that live either near the surface ("planktonic foraminifera") or on the seafloor ("benthic foraminifera"). Called forams for short.

    Climate proxy: something that tells us what the climate was like in the past, such as data from the thickness of tree rings, the composition of gases trapped in ancient ice, historical human records of annual bloom times (eg the long-recorded bloom dates of cherry trees in Kyoto, Japan), or the ratios of certain stable isotopes found in shells, corals, or other biogenic substances

    Oxygen-18: a stable isotope of oxygen that contains 8 protons and 10 neutrons, rather than the 8 protons and 8 neutrons of "regular" oxygen (oxygen-16). The ratio of oxygen-18 to oxygen-16 in seawater (and sea shells) can be used as a proxy for the global average temperature

    Ice sheet: a permanent layer of ice covering land, as found in polar regions (and as distinguished from sea ice, like the stuff that floats at the north pole in the Arctic ocean). Combined, the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets contain more than 99% of the total freshwater ice on Earth.


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    Malaria - a life-threatening disease caused by parasites that are transmitted to people through the bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes.

    Parasite - an organism that benefits by living in/on a host organism and deriving nutrients at the host's expense.

    Host - an organism in/on which another organism lives.

    Protozoa - a group of single-celled microscopic animals (not bacteria or viruses) that includes the Plasmodium species.

    Plasmodium - a genus of parasitic protozoa, many of which cause malaria in their hosts. Four species regularly infect humans: P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. malariae, & P. ovale.

    P. falciparum - the Plasmodium species that kills the most people, by causing malignant malaria, the most dangerous form of malaria.

    Anopheles gambiae - a ‘complex' of at least seven species of mosquitoes that are the main vectors of P. falciparum in sub-Saharan Africa.

    Species complex - a group of closely related species that look so similar that the boundaries between them are often unclear.

    Hunting and gathering - depending primarily on wild foods for subsistence

    Paleontology - the study of fossils and what fossils tell us about the past, about evolution, and about how humans fit into the world.


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    Prehensile Tail: An animal tail that can grasp or hold objects. A wide range of animals have prehensile tails, including mammals (like opossums and kinkajous), reptiles (like chameleons), amphibians (like salamanders), and fish (seahorses).

    Old World Monkeys (Cercopithecidae): A family of primates native to Africa and Asia that includes baboons, guenons and macaques – all of which have non-prehensile tails.

    New World Monkeys (Platyrrhini): A family of primates native to Central and South America that includes spider monkeys, howlers, and capuchins – all of which have prehensile tails.

    Prehensile tails evolved twice in new world monkeys: In atelines (spider monkey and howlers) the prehensile tail tip is like a finger and incredibly dextrous. In cebines (capuchin monkeys) the tip is furry and not quite as dextrous.


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    Spider Monkey (and Diddy Kong!)
    Ficus insipida (tripical fig tree)
    Barbary Macaque (from Northern Africa)
    Rhesus Macaque(from India)
    Opossum
    Chameleon
    Salamander (Aneides lugubris)
    Seahorses (actually Horsea!)

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    Crypsis: An animal’s ability to avoid detection by other animals. Tigers use camouflage crypsis as part of their predation strategy.

    Apex Predator: An animal on top of the food chain with no natural predator in its ecosystem.

    Camera Trap: A motion-sensor activated camera to capture images of animals in the wild with as little human interference as possible.

    Cultural Climate: Shared perceptions and attitudes in a particular area.


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    Filial cannibalism: is a form of infanticide that occurs when an adult individual of a species consumes all or part of the young of its own species or immediate offspring.

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    Biodiversity - the variety of genes, species, and ecosystems

    Conservation - ethical use and protection of valuable natural resources (e.g. trees, minerals, wildlife, water)

    Ecosystem - a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment

    Ecosystem services - benefits people obtain from ecosystems (four categories: supporting, provisioning, regulating, and cultural)

    Richness - the number of species in an ecological community, landscape, or region

    Pollinators - animals that help plants reproduce by moving pollen from male flowers to female flowers

    Pollution - the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment (e.g. chemicals, particles, noise, heat, light)


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    Breed group: A grouping of dog breeds based on their historical jobs.

    Dog personality traits: Levels of playfulness, curiosity, sociability, and aggressiveness that dogs exhibit based on testing.

    Animal Cognition: The study of the mental capacities of animals.

    Confirmation bias: The tendency to interpret evidence in favor of one’s existing beliefs.


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    Brain lesion: Damage to the brain caused by disease or injury.

    Broca’s area: Region in the frontal lobe associated with speech production.

    Fusiform face area: Structure near the back of the brain associated with facial recognition.

    Hippocampus: Seahorse-shaped brain structure associated with memory formation.

    Amygdala: Small brain structure associated with emotions and memories.

    fMRI: An imaging procedure that measures brain activity by tracking changes associated with blood flow.


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    Abiogenesis – the process of life arising from non-living matter, such as simple organic compounds.

    Amino Acids – a class of organic compounds. Twenty of the roughly 500 known amino acids appear in the genetic code, and, when strung together into long chains, form the basic building blocks of proteins.

    Faint Young Sun Paradox – describes the apparent contradiction between evidence for a warm ancient Earth, and stellar models, which predict that the young Sun was 25% dimmer than today's Sun. First described by Carl Sagan and George Mullen in 1972.

    The Miller–Urey experiment – a landmark experiment in the 1950s in which scientists demonstrated that amino acids could form spontaneously from inorganic gases present in Earth's early atmosphere

    Snowball Earth – a climatic state of Earth in which the entire surface becomes frozen over.


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