Introduction to Anthropology

Anthropology 101 Dr. Meyers Exam 1 1. Gene flow can occur in which of the following situations? D.) All of the Above 2. What are the four subdisciplines of anthropology? C.) Biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology, cultural anthropology, and archaeology. 3. If I successfully train myself to finish a triathlon, and then bear children, I believe I will pass on my nowtrained muscle strength to my children. This is an example of what? B.) Lamarkian Evolution 4. A theory proposed in the 1960’s suggested that during the Salem witch trials, girls were eating tainted bread which caused them to hallucinate. This theory is an example of? B.) Effects of cultural biases in science 5. The Nacirema are an exotic culture whose practices entail keeping death and disease at bay, and are nothing like American culture. B.) False 6. Which of the following primates are monogamous, lack sexual dimorphism, and have males that contribute much to the care of the offspring? C.) Gibbons 7. What is an ethnography? B.) A written or visual (film) description of a particular culture 8. Which of the following is not part of the scientific method? A.) Catastrophism 9. What is the purpose of archaeology? B.) To discover how past people lived their lives 10. Which of the following terms refers to a set of learned behavior and ideas that human beings acquire as members of a society? C.) Culture 11. What is anthropology? A.) The integrated study of human nature, society and the past 12. Race is a biological category. B.) False 13. Which type of UV ray from the sun stimulates the synthesis of Vitamin D, which is crucial for healthy bone development, and helps prevent rickets? C.) UVA rays 14. Why do populations differ genetically? B.) Because they possess different proportions of the same set of alleles 15. What does Mendelian Inheritance refer to? D.) The view that heredity is based on nonblending, singleparticle genetic inheritance 16. Science strives for objectivity but it can rarely if ever meet the goal of total objectivity because: D.) All of the above 17. In the Jonathan Marks article, why does he say that the statement “we are all apes” is cultural and not biological? B.) The statement favors ancestry over difference (or descent over modification) and favoring one over the other is a cultural decision. 18. What is taxonomy? B.) The biological classification of various kinds of organisms 19. Which of the following refers to a comparison of two or more cultures? D.) Ethnology 20. Prehistory refers to: C.) Any past culture that lacks written records 21. The Nacirema culture are most concerned with: C.) Preventing debilitation of the human body 22. All the genes in the bodies of all members of a given species is known as B.) Gene pool 23. Skin color has been found to be the one trait that is tied to other traits biologically, so it is a good predictor of characteristics such as intelligence, height and athleticism. B.) False 24. The function of dark skin color is to: A.) Protect against skin damage

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