#human bio notes

-- also called oviducts

-- feather-like projections

-- ovulation = release of the egg

-- after ovulation, the egg enters one of the Fallopian tubes

-- the egg only lives 6 to 24 hours

-- this is where fertilization occurs

-- the egg cannot move so it relies on cilia that line the ducts to cause a current, along with muscle contraction

-- this leads to cramps at time of ovulation

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Kingdom = Animalia

Phylum = Chordata

Class = Mammalia

Order = Primates

Family = Hominidae

Subfamily = Homininae

Genus = Ardipithecus

Species = A. kadabba

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-- found on the heads of neonates

-- allow the head to be molded

-- eases passage through the birth canal

-- defined as the area or space between the bones of the skull

-- this space eventually closes

-- posterior fontanelle usually fuses by 3 months of age

-- anterior fontanelle fuses between 9 and 18 months of age

-- fontanelle depression = likely dehydrated

-- bulging fontanelle = increased intracranial pressure

-- fontanelles close to form sutures

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-- lived in Eastern Africa      -- Turkana basin      -- southern Ethiopia

-- lived about 2.7 to 2.3 million years ago

-- very few remains have been found

-- earliest known robust australopithecine

-- had a strongly protruding face

-- had large megadont teeth

-- had a powerful jaw

-- had a well-developed sagittal crest on top of the skull

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-- liquid in humans and animals

-- not present in insects

-- pushed through organisms by the heart

-- brings nutrients and oxygen to tissues

-- takes away waste and carbon dioxide from tissues

-- made up of      -- plasma      -- red blood cells      -- white blood cells      -- platelets

-- hemoglobin is present in red blood cells

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