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What is the study of structures of the body that are visible to the naked eye?
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Gross anatomy
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What is the tendency of the body to maintain an internal state of dynamic equilibrium?
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Homeostasis
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The structure and function of an organism result from the ____ to which the population adapted in the course of its evolution.
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Selection pressures
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Homeostasis is normally maintained by cycles of self-correcting physiological responses called
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Negative feedback
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An organ is an anatomical structure made of at least two kinds of
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Tissues
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Structures within a cell that carry out specific functions for it are called
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Organelles
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A structure that carries out the body's ultimate response to a stimulus is called an
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Effector
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What is the separation of wastes from the tissues and their elimination from the body?
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Excretion
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What suggests a method for answering a question?
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Hypothesis
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Primates are defined in part by the presence of ____, which makes the hand as a whole ____, or able to grasp things by encircling them.
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Opposable, prehensile
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Oldest known bipedal primates
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Australopithecus
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The family to which all living and extinct bipedal primates belong.
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Hominidae
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Disease, predators, and competition, for example
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Selection pressures
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Combined the findings of Aristotle and Galen with original discoveries; wrote The Canon of Medicine
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Avicenna
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Of the Parts of Animals
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Aristotle
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