Question 1

Franz Boas is dressed to explore the Arctic. This illustrates humans\' ability to deal with their environment through

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material culture

Question 2

What are the steps of the scientific method in their proper order?

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Identify a problem; state a hypothesis; collect data; test the hypothesis

Question 3

New research in Ethiopia in 2001 changed the way we think about human origins by demonstrating that the earliest hominins lived in

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woodlands

Question 4

Which of the following is NOT a uniquely human activity:  making a bookshelf growing corn climbing a tree gossiping with friends

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climbing a tree

Question 5

Physical anthropology is the study of human __________ and human biocultural _________

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evolution; variation

Question 6

For your physical anthropology research project, you report that you measured the length of 150 gorilla thighbones, and you suggest that the two groups you found represent different sexes. What problem might your professor have with this report?

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Your report does not attempt to test a hypothesis

Question 7

Physical anthropologists can understand human biological variation by looking at changes in

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genes, health, lifestyle

Question 8

Your professor researches the Turkana pastoralists of Kenya, investigating both the genetic changes that allow them to easily digest milk and the role that dairy animals have played in their history. Your professor most likely uses which of the following methods in her research?

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the biocultural approach

Question 9

Which of the following would a physical anthropologist NOT study to learn more about humans:  genes and reproduction pottery and stone tools disease and nutrition bones and teeth

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pottery and stone tools

Question 10

Several forensic anthropologists have dealt with the aftermath of Argentina\'s \"Dirty War\" (1970s and 1980s) during which many people disappeared. Which of the following techniques would be inappropriate for anthropologists to use in attempting to find and identify these individuals:  studying skeletons, using methods of physical anthropology excavating mass graves, using archaeological techniques creating a glossary of the local language, using methods of linguistic anthropology talking to locals who were alive at the time, using ethnographic methods of cultural anthropology

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creating a glossary of the local language, using methods of linguistic anthropology

Question 11

T/F: Swine flu (H1N1) is the result of viral evolution

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True

Question 12

T/F: Comparing the skeletons of Aegyptopithecus and Oreopithecus, two extinct species of primates, can provide physical anthropologists information about the human past

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True

Question 13

Your cousin insists that he ran into your doppelganger the spitting image of you at the mall. You counter this assertion with your knowledge of physical anthropology by replying that

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both Malthus and Darwin observed that variation exists within a species and no two members are exactly alike

Question 14

The \"peppered\" moths of northern England range from light-colored to dark-colored. During the Industrial Revolution, soot and smoke covered trees, and the peppered moth population became predominantly dark-colored, as these moths were better able to avoid predation by blending into their surroundings. This example illustrates which force of evolution?

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natural selection

Question 15

T/F: The HMS Beagle, whose path is seen here, circumnavigated the globe

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True

Question 16

Darwin did not know about genes but believed that traits passed from parents to offspring by particles called

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gemmules

Question 17

One of the theories put forth to explain the evolution of modern humans is that Homo sapiens arose more or less simultaneously in a variety of major geographical locales in the Old World (Europe, Africa, and Asia) through interbreeding of populations. A criticism of this theory based on the forces of evolution is that

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there would have been insufficient gene flow among the relatively few Homo sapiens in the world to maintain a single gene pool

Question 18

Your history professor is interested in genealogy and tells your class that, on his mother\'s side, he is descended from the original Amish population, a religious and insular group of people in Pennsylvania who tended to marry within their social circle. He also notes that many of his extended family members have the condition polydactyly, an extra finger or toe. The high frequency of polydactyly in your professor\'s ancestry is an example of _________________ in the Pennsylvania Amish

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genetic drift

Question 19

T/F: In a simplified example of eye color inheritance, B stands for the allele for brown eyes and is dominant. Blue eyes are represented by the recessive allele b. A child who inherits one of each allele from her parents will have the genotype Bb and therefore have brown eyes.

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True

Question 20

This picture shows two variants in ___________ or physical appearance of seven characteristics of the pea plant

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phenotype

Question 21

T/F: The largest organelles in a cell are the mitochondria

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False

Question 22

T/F: Prokaryotes have multiple cells while eukaryotes have one

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False

Question 23

An offspring with the chromosome pair XX will be

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female

Question 24

T/F: This picture demonstrates that E. coli is a prokaryotic bacterium

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True

Question 25

During a visit to the circus, you and a friend stumble into a tent with a \"freaks of nature\" display. Your friend points out a photograph of a man whose left arm is protruding from his left hip rather than from his shoulder. You explain to your friend that this condition was likely caused by a mutation in the man\'s

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homeotic genes

Question 26

Structural proteins found in the human body are responsible for all of the following EXCEPT:  the shape of your femur  the size of your wisdom teeth when you went through puberty whether your hair is straight or curly

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when you went through puberty

Question 27

The somatic type of eukaryotic cells makes up: bone and muscle skin and fat hair and brain all of these are correct

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all of these are correct

Question 28

If you wanted to sequence the genome of Ãtzi, the 5,300-year-old \"Iceman\" mummy found in the Alps in 1991, which method would you be most likely to use?

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PCR

Question 29

Human and chimpanzee DNA is about _________ identical

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98%

Question 30

If one side of the DNA ladder includes the sequence CTAATGT, the complementary base configuration for this sequence will be

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GATTACA

Question 31

The three patterns of natural selection are

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stabilizing, directional, and disruptive

Question 32

T/F: This diagram represents the founder effect, that is, when a population moves into a new area and becomes reproductively isolated

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True

Question 33

Another name for a reproductive population is

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deme

Question 34

Compared to the normal male karyotype, a man affected by Klinefelter\'s syndrome has

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one more X chromosome

Question 35

The genotype that confers protection against malaria while allowing an individual to survive and reproduce is

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AS

Question 36

T/F: The gene pool includes only the beneficial traits in a population

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False

Question 37

T/F: Mutation is the only source of new genetic material

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True

Question 38

T/F: A change in allele frequencies from one generation to the next is an example of evolution

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True

Question 39

This figure shows significant genetic change in horses over millions of years, which is also called

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macroevolution

Question 40

The case of the peppered moth and industrial melanism during the Industrial Revolution in England illustrates

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change in frequency of the nonmelanic genotype

Question 41

The medullary cavities of bone exist in the

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diaphyses

Question 42

T/F: These children are suffering from hypoxia (short)

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False

Question 43

A gradual change in phenotype over a geographical area is called a

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cline

Question 44

The concept of race began

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during the Renaissance

Question 45

Frank Livingstone, a noted physical anthropologist, is famous for having said about human diversity in appearance, \"There are no _________; there are only ___________\"

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races; clines

Question 46

T/F: For humans, hair loss and sweating are both thermoregulatory adaptations to heat

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True

Question 47

People who live in the areas of the world highlighted in red have adapted to these particular geographical conditions and are likely to

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be short

Question 48

One of your classmates moved to the United States from Somalia as a kid in the late 1990s. After seeing a picture of his family, you notice that he and his sister must have been undernourished for several years. You arrive at this conclusion because your classmate

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and his sister are both much shorter than their parents

Question 49

T/F: In general, populations living between 0-20Â°N latitude have the darkest skin color

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False

Question 50

According to Bergmann\'s and Allen\'s rules, all of the following are true EXCEPT: the Igbo of Nigeria have narrow bodies the Berbers of Morocco have long limbs to dissipate heat the Inuit in Greenland are tall and long-limbed the Yupik of Alaska have short, squat bodies to retain heat

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the Inuit in Greenland are tall and long-limbed

Question 51

What is anthropology?

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study of humans bicultural approach  holistic multiple perspectives all times periods

Question 52

Big question of anthropology

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What does it mean to be humans?

Question 53

4 subfields of anthropology

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1) cultural  2) archaeology  3) linguistic  4) biological

Question 54

5 specialties within biological anthropology

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1) primatology 2) paleoanthropology 3) human biology 4) bioarchaeology  5) forensic anthropology

Question 55

3 main figures in history of biological anthropology

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Franz Boas, AleÅ¡ HrdliÄka, Earnest Hooton

Question 56

Franz Boas

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scientific method

Question 57

AleÅ¡ HrdliÄka

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professional society scientific journal

Question 58

Earnest Hooton

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trained most of 1st generation of physical anthropologists

Question 59

Scientific Method

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purpose - research - hypothesis - experiment - analysis - conclusion

Question 60

6 events of human evolution (what makes us human)

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1) bipedalism 2) non-honing chewing 3) material culture 4) speech 5) hunting 6) agriculture

Question 61

General belief system in Middle Ages

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fixity of species

Question 62

Great chain of being

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Aristotle  God - Angel - Heaven - Human - Beast - Plant - Flame - Stone - The Ladder of Intellect

Question 63

Fixity of species

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Earth is \"full\"

Question 64

Ray

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reproductive isolation 1st taxonomy (physical)

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