Anthropology 101 Midterm Exam Questions and Answers All Correct
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Anthropology 101 Midterm Exam Questions and Answers All Correct
What does it mean to take a "holistic perspective?" - Answer-To seek interconnections and relatedness between various parts of human cultures and biology
A "culture bond" theory is - Answer-a theory based on assumptions common to...
Anthropology 101 Midterm Exam Questions and Answers All Correct What does it mean to take a "holistic perspective?" - Answer -To seek interconnections and relatedness between various parts of human cultures and biology A "culture bond" theory is - Answer -a theory based on assumptions common to a particular culture rather than deriving from comparisons of many different cultures Cross -cultural research that allows anthropologists to explain why differences or similarities occur between groups is known as - Answer -ethnology Cultural anthropology is the study of patterns of human behavior. These standards - Answer -focus on humans as culture producing and re -producing creatures In-depth descriptive studies of specific cultures are called - Answer -ethnographies What is the primary purpose of practicing applied anthropology? - Answer -It allows the use of anthropological knowledge to solve practical problems The Garage Project in Tuscon demonstrated that what people say and what they do can differ dramatically. For instance, investigators found that - Answer -the amount of beer consumed, according to empty cans in the trash, was far higher than people claimed. As part of your job, you may study the frequency of blood types in human populations, or watch behavior of monkeys and apes, or dig for early hominid bones in East Africa. You are a/an: - Answer -physical anthropologist A position that is a closely examined and critically checked explanation of observed reality is a(n) - Answer -theory What is "transplant tourism?" - Answer -travel connected with the buying and selling of human organs How do scientific accounts and creation stories differ from each other? - Answer - Scientific accounts focus on testable ideas, and creation stories do not The smallest working units in biological classificatory systems that are reproductively isolated populations or groups of populations capable of interbreeding to produce fertile offspring are called - Answer -species Which scientist proposed that an organisms behavior could bring about changes in its anatomy? This was called inheritance acquired characteristics. - Answer -Jean -Baptiste Lamarck Gregor Mendel's law of independent assortment argues that - Answer -different genetic traits are inherited as separate qualities (they are not dependent on each other) The three base sequence of a gene that specifies production of an amino acid is the - Answer -codon If you have a chromosome pair on which the alleles for a single gene are identical (for example, if you have the genotype AA for blood type in the ABO system), this pair is described as - Answer -homozygous Which of the following has figured most prominently in human evolutionary studies? - Answer -Mitochondrial DNA Physical traits such as height, skin color, or liability to disease are controlled by multiple genes. This is called - Answer -polygenetic inheritance What technique do anthropologists use to analyze genetic differences between humans and apes - Answer -DNA sequencing The ultimate source of evolutionary change is - Answer -mutation Which of the following do primatologists believe to be the greatest threat of habituated great apes? - Answer -Disease The mammalian diversity with which we are familiar today is a product of - Answer - adaptive radiation In order to maintain a constant body temperature, mammals most need - Answer -a diet high in calories Under what kinds of conditions would you expect to find in convergent evolution - Answer -similar environmental pressures on various species The human dental formula is 2-1-2-3. These numbers, in order, refer to the following tooth pattern - Answer -incisors/canine/premolars/ molars Among many species, males possess larger canine teeth than females. This is an example of - Answer -sexual dimorphism Primates have a fovea centralis, leading to which of the following consequences? - Answer -They can focus clearly on a particular object
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