Glossary Terms

Swedish botanist and physician who developed the system for sorting

the location of a particular gene or DNA sequence on

the study of macroevolution focuses on biological evolution over many

a group of diseases caused by any four different microorganisms

the branch of genetics concerned with inheritance. This field was

the idea that merit and individual effort, rather than one's

the study of microevolution focuses on changes in allele frequencies

a small amount of DNA that is located in the

pre-evolutionary scientific argument that human biological "races" all descended from

originally from Spanish mulato meaning hybrid; an offspring of European