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Founded in 1946, Palomar College is a public two-year community college in the city of San Marcos, located in north San Diego County, California. Palomar offers over 300 associate degree, certificate programs and is designated by the U.S. Department of Education as an Hispanic-Serving Institution ...
The study of plant pollen, usually for the purpose of reconstructing ancient climates and dating soil strata. Palynology is an important tool of paleoecology.
Industry:Anthropology
The study of population characteristics, especially its size, density, and growth patterns.
Industry:Anthropology
The study of primates and their behavioral patterns. Primatologists usually carry out long term field studies of free-ranging populations.
Industry:Anthropology
The study of the conditions under which plants, animals, and other organisms become altered after death, buried, and sometimes preserved as fossils.
Industry:Anthropology
A protein that has the ability to cause the cells that it invades to repeatedly duplicate it. Prions are responsible for causing Mad Cow Disease. Apparently, prions are not effectively attacked by their host's immune system nor can they be killed with existing antibiotics, extreme heat, cold, or other normally lethal conditions. The word prion comes from "proteinaceous infectious particle. "
Industry:Anthropology
Unità complessa di protoplasma, di solito con un nucleo, citoplasma e una membrana che lo avvolge. Tutte le piante e gli animali sono composti da una o più celle microscopiche. L'unità organica più piccola in grado di svolgere tutte le funzioni normalmente attribuite alla vita è una cellula. Vedere cellula eucariotica e cellula procariota.
Industry:Anthropology
Una classe di tumori delle cellule del sangue e degli organi che formano il sangue, con conseguente produzione eccezionalmente alta dei leucociti (globuli bianchi). Altri organi possono acnhe essere coinvolti. La leucemia può essere causata da alcuni virus, sostanze chimiche e radiazioni. Tuttavia, può essere anche causata da fattori genetici. Per esempio, gli individui con sindrome di Down hanno una maggiore possibilità di sviluppo della leucemia.
Industry:Anthropology
A highly contagious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. It is normally spread by fleas that have taken blood from an infected human or other animal. Symptoms include a high fever and extremely swollen lymph nodes in the groin, armpits, and/or throat. An agonizing death usually occurs within a few days.
Industry:Anthropology
A neural tube birth defect in which there are malformations of vertebrae and the protrusion of the spinal cord from the body. This can result in paralysis of the legs, loss of bowel and bladder control, and "water" on the brain (hydrocephaly). Spina bifida requires surgical correction.
Industry:Anthropology
