What Are the Defining Attributes of Culture? What Does It

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Essay

What are the defining attributes of culture? What does it mean that culture is learned, shared, symbolic, all-encompassing, and integrated?

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Definitions:

Extra-cellular Substances

Biochemical compounds found outside of cells that provide structural and biochemical support to surrounding cells.

Specialized Cells

Cells differentiated to perform specific functions necessary for the organism's survival, such as nerve cells, muscle cells, or blood cells.

Tissue

Groups of similar cells and their extracellular matrix from the same origin that together carry out a specific function.

Embryonic Germ Layer

One of the three primary layers of cells (endoderm, mesoderm, ectoderm) in the very early embryo that gives rise to all the body's organs and tissues.