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Test Bank for The Essence of Anthropology 4th Edition




True / False

1. Evolution is the central organizing principle of the biological sciences.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: 31
OTHER: Factual
NOTES: Pickup

2. Linnaeus’s classificatory system reflected a new understanding of life on earth at that time.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: 32
OTHER: Conceptual
NOTES: New

3. Humans are primates.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: 32
OTHER: Factual
NOTES: Pickup

4. The “system of nature” is an approach to classify all of animate and inanimate nature.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: 32
OTHER: Factual
NOTES: Pickup

,Test Bank for The Essence of Anthropology 4th Edition


5. Taxonomy is an ancient form of classification created by Linnaeus that is no longer used today.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: 32
OTHER: Factual
NOTES: Pickup

6. A bat’s wing is analogous to a human hand.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: 32
OTHER: Conceptual
NOTES: Pickup

7. Uniformitarianism is a more recent theory than catastrophism.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: 33
OTHER: Factual
NOTES: New

8. Even prior to Darwin’s publication, many European naturalists accepted the idea that life had evolved.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: 33
OTHER: Conceptual
NOTES: Pickup

9. Mendel published his findings in a respectable scientific journal, but no one understood their significance until after
his death.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: 35
OTHER: Conceptual
NOTES: Pickup

,Test Bank for The Essence of Anthropology 4th Edition


10. Genes are particulate, meaning that they are separate structures rather than portions of DNA.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: 36
OTHER: Conceptual
NOTES: Pickup

11. Darwin could not initially understand how variation occurred in living organisms.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: 35
OTHER: Conceptual
NOTES: New

12. DNA provides the instruction for the thousands of proteins that keep us healthy every day.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: 36
OTHER: Factual
NOTES: Pickup

13. The complete sequence of human DNA is called the genome.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: 37
OTHER: Factual
NOTES: Pickup

14. If two body cells merge in meiosis, the result is a cell with 46 pairs of chromosomes.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: 40
OTHER: Factual
NOTES: Pickup

, Test Bank for The Essence of Anthropology 4th Edition


15. Testing for DNA is the best way to determine those who form part of an individual’s family.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: 41
OTHER: Conceptual
NOTES: New

16. When two alleles on the same gene are not identical, they are called heterozygous.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: 42
OTHER: Factual
NOTES: New

17. In the search for disease cures, scientists often predict an individual’s genotype.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: 42
OTHER: Conceptual
NOTES: Pickup

18. The only source of new genetic material is random drift.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: 44
OTHER: Factual
NOTES: Pickup

19. Founder effects are a kind of genetic drift.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: 45
OTHER: Conceptual
NOTES: Pickup

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