Exam 1, chapter 1,2,3 Anthro 102
Anthropology - correct answer ✔✔the study of human-kind everywhere , throughout time
Scientific Method - correct answer ✔✔collection of data through observation and experimentation, and form/test of hypothesis
Cultural Relativism - correct answer ✔✔the belief in the equal validity of all cultures
Biological Anthropology - correct answer ✔✔emphasizes humans as biological organisms, genetics, evolution and human variation
Bio-cultural Perspective - correct answer ✔✔focuses on the interaction of biology and culture
Paleoanthropology - correct answer ✔✔human evolution, studying the biology and culture of past humans
Genetics - correct answer ✔✔human DNA, evolutionary relationships, migration patterns, blood types, disorder
Primatology - correct answer ✔✔study of nonhuman primates
Human Variation - correct answer ✔✔growth and development, phenotypic variability
Osteology - correct answer ✔✔study of human skeletons (usually ancient)
Forensic Anthropology - correct answer ✔✔identification of human skeletal remains for legal purposes Cultural Anthropology - correct answer ✔✔study of contemporary human cultures focusing on different patterns in human behavior, thoughts and feelings
Fieldwork - correct answer ✔✔term anthropologists use for on-location research
Participant Observation - correct answer ✔✔technique of learning a people's culture through direct participation in their everyday life over an extended period of time
Linguistics - correct answer ✔✔studies human languages in an attempt to answer how language influences or reflects culture
Archaeology - correct answer ✔✔study of human cultures through the recovery and analysis of material remains and environmental data
Features - correct answer ✔✔such as fire hearths, rock cairns, house puts
Associated Flora and Fauna - correct answer ✔✔plants and animals that are at the site
Bioarchaeology - correct answer ✔✔study of human remains as a record of cultural processes
Law of Segregation - correct answer ✔✔when gametes are produced, allele pairs separate and retain their separate identities through the generations
Law of Independent Assortment - correct answer ✔✔genes for different traits are inherited independently of each other
Gene - correct answer ✔✔a section of DNA that codes for a particular trait
Allele - correct answer ✔✔alternative form of a gene
Heterozygous - correct answer ✔✔possessing two different alleles of a particular gene (Tt)
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