Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich (1752-1840)
German naturalist who developed one of the earliest, nonscientific human
caste system
Closed, hereditary system of hierarchy, often dictated by religion and
Caucasian
A non-scientific term invented by German physician Johann Blumenbach in
cell
The smallest unit of life. Our human bodies are composed
census
An official count of a population and collection of demographic
chromosome
Long strands of DNA found inside the cell nucleus. Human
Civil Rights movement
Legal and other efforts led by African Americans against racism
classification
The ordering of items into groups on the basis of
cline
A gradual, continuous change in a particular trait or trait
codominant
Both alleles affect the phenotype of a heterozygous genotype, and
