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What an indivdual is genetically. |
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If an individual has a blood type of O, what would the genotype be? |
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Who wrote the book On the Origin of Species in 1859? |
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What statement about natural selection is true? |
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Natural selection can only operate on the phenotype. |
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Why has sickle-cell anemia in its heterozygous form been maintained in certain environments? |
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Heterozygotes have abnormal hemoglobin to protect against malaria. |
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The various random processes that affect gene frequencies in small, isolated populations are called... |
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When two organism that are heterozygous for a trait are crossed, the characteristic that occurs in roughly one-fourth of their offspring is due to |
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What is not a mechanism for genetic evolution? |
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a group of related organism whose memebers can interbreed to produce offspring that can live and reproduce. |
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What is Thornson's nose rule? |
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A statistical measure that shows longer noses occur in cooler areas. |
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What did the tripartite scheme of race do? |
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use the phenotypic trait of skin color to classify people into races |
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what statement about race is not true? |
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Japan has a more flexible way of defining race than the US or Brazil. |
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An example of culturally constructed category that may have little to do with actual biological differences is... |
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The American Anthropological Association came out with a statement on race in 1998. Which of these statements did it not include? |
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Race is a biological category in which children should get their identity from the minority parent. |
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Why do some view the hypodescent rule as advantageous? |
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it involved access to resources and funding for minorities |
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What is true about skin color and climate? |
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The more melanin in the skin, the more ultraviolet rays are screened out. |
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a theory that fires and floods destroyed ancient species, and God created new ones. |
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Transformism is also called... |
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Slash and burn cultivation helped to spread |
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What is an example of eugenics? |
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the slaughter of many Bosnian muslims by Bosnian Serbs |
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What are the principles of evolution? |
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common descent of modification and natural selection
1. variation
2. inheritance
3. high rate of population growth
4.differential survival and reproduction |
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What are the mechanism for genetic evolution? |
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1. mutation is always occuring (with environment or natural selection)
2. Random genetic drift (small groups that are isolated)
3.Gene flow (migrations of populations and interbreeding) |
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What is human biological adaptation? |
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Occurs at all times in response to challenges of disease, diet and climate.
Ex. Skin pigmentation (people closer to equater are darker) |
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A poplation sharing one or more genetic traits. Not useful as biological concepts although they are important in social and ethnic classification. |
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