ANT208H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Lactose Intolerance, Epiphyseal Plate, Ontogeny

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A condition of poor health perceived or felt by and individual. The form of medicine that developed out of the scientific tradition in 18th-century europe. It views disease as having a unique biological cause with the body. A physiological alteration that impairs function in some way. A state of complete social, psychological and physical well-being. The inability to digest lactose products such as milk. The identification of the nature of an illness or other problem by examination of the symptoms the scientific study of human health integrated with evolutionary theory. Decent with modification the gradual, non-random process by which biological traits become either more or less common in a population as a function of differential reproduction of their bearers. Traits that confer some survival or reproductive advantage. The number of fertile offspring produced by an individual. Any portion of chromosomal material that potentially lasts for enough generations to serve as a unit of natural selection.