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Mizzou online "Anthropology"
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
06/12/2013

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What is genotype?
Definition
What an indivdual is genetically.
Term
If an individual has a blood type of O, what would the genotype be?
Definition
OO
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Who wrote the book On the Origin of Species in 1859?
Definition
Charles Darwin
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What statement about natural selection is true?
Definition
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?
Definition
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...
Definition
random genetic drift
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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
Definition
a recessive gene
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What is not a mechanism for genetic evolution?
Definition
gene pool
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What is a species?
Definition
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?
Definition
A statistical measure that shows longer noses occur in cooler areas.
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What did the tripartite scheme of race do?
Definition
use the phenotypic trait of skin color to classify people into races
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what statement about race is not true?
Definition
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...
Definition
race
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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?
Definition
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?
Definition
it involved access to resources and funding for minorities
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What is true about skin color and climate?
Definition
The more melanin in the skin, the more ultraviolet rays are screened out.
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What is catastrophism?
Definition
a theory that fires and floods destroyed ancient species, and God created new ones.
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Transformism is also called...
Definition
evolution
Term
Slash and burn cultivation helped to spread
Definition
malaria
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What is an example of eugenics?
Definition
the slaughter of many Bosnian muslims by Bosnian Serbs
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What are the principles of evolution?
Definition

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?
Definition

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?
Definition

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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Define Race:
Definition
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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