Diversity and Human Relations

Interpersonal Communication Skills

TOPIC 1 1. Critics of biological argue that culture/biology play a significant role in determining human behavior 2. It has been projected that 50% of the world’s languages will disappear in this century 3. The basic premise of appreciation of diversity is understanding 4. The discovery of DNA has been called the most important biological work of last 100 yrs 5. Like most evolutionary accounts of human nature, the importance of cultural diversity for human survival is a hypothesis may never be proved of disproved 6. Melting Pot, salad bowl, and mosaic are terms applied to how different countries deal with cultural diversity 7. A, T, G, and C letters represent four chemicals that compromise DNA 8. As the US was developing into a nation of significance and new immigrants from many countries settled in the country, a process of cultural assimilation occurred, helping to produce an American society. 9. DNA bases and sequences differ from person to person, producing significant variations among the major ethnic groups in terms of how their bodies functions. FALSE 10. A key element in successfully addressing diversity in human relations is gaining a degree of comfort with the concept of differentness . 11. Genetic and social researchers working to better understand human diversity note that about 85% of all human genetic variation is intra-population . 12. A human genome, estimated to contain more than 20,000 genes is contained in almost every human cell . 13. DNA bases and sequences vary from person to person . True 14. Early US immigration policy, until 1882, could best be described as an open door policy or system. 15. Critics of biological determinism argue that social and environmental factors play a significant role in determining human behavior. 16. Geneticist R. Lewontin argued that it makes no sense to separate genetic from environmental factors as determinants of human behavior. 17. Multiculturalism has been adopted as official policy in which nations? Australia, Canada, and united kingdom 18. One group that has worked actively to reduce cultural diversity by converting remote societies to their beliefs are evangelical missionaries 19. These are obvious differences between cultures, such as dress, language, traditions and customs. More significant variations between them include which of the following? All of these- moral values communicated, diff ways organize them, approach to interact with others nd environment 20. While the genomes of different DNA sequences, they have roughly the same number of base pairs. False 21. Introduced in the US during the 1980s multiculturalism is an ideology that seeks to preserve distinctly different cultural groups rather than a single, homogeneous society. 22. According to most mainstream anthropologists, humans first emerged in Africa about 2 mil years ago. 23. Rosalind Franklin, though not fully recognized, made significant contributions to the discovery of DNA through her x-ray photographs .

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