Life at the Small Scale
The basic unit of life.
What is the cell?
The variety of life in all its forms.
What is biodiversity?
The scientific study of mind and behavior.
What is psychology?
Understanding a culture by its own standards.
What is cultural relativism?
The two forces that determine price equilibrium.
What are supply and demand?
The organelle that produces energy in the form of ATP.
What is the mitochondrion?
The process that drives adaptation in populations over generations.
What is natural selection?
The brain lobe responsible for planning and decision-making.
What is the frontal lobe?
The current geological era where human activity is a dominant force on Earth.
What is the Anthropocene?
A government-imposed maximum price that creates shortages.
What is a price ceiling?
The type of bond where electrons are shared between atoms.
What is a covalent bond?
A branching diagram that shows evolutionary relationships.
What is a phylogenetic tree?
The gap between neurons where neurotransmitters are released.
What is the synapse?
The concept that marginalized groups face greater exposure to environmental harm.
What is environmental racism?
The responsiveness of demand to a change in price.
What is elasticity?
The process by which DNA is copied into RNA.
What is transcription?
Humans’ closest living relatives in the primate order.
What are chimpanzees/bonobos?
The system that activates the “fight or flight” response.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
A critique of globalization that emphasizes cultural sameness.
What is cultural homogenization?
An unintended side effect of production, such as pollution.
What is an externality?
A solution that minimizes changes in pH when small amounts of acid or base are added
What is a buffer?
The evolutionary process where one species rapidly diversifies into many new forms.
What is adaptive radiation?
The minimum amount of stimulus energy needed to be detected 50% of the time.
What is the absolute threshold?
The anthropological critique that colonial structures still shape societies today.
What is postcolonialism (or decolonization)?
The loss of efficiency when markets are distorted.
What is deadweight loss?