Question 1

The major differences among human groups are differences in:

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A)  culture
B)  anatomy and physiology
C)  innate patterns of behavior
D)  skin color

Question 2

A clinal distribution is also called:

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A)  discontinuous variation
B)  continuous variation
C)  ontological distribution
D)  gradual distribution

Question 3

The study of human variation on the molecular level has shown that:

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A)  there is more variation within geographically separated human populations than between them
B)  there is more variation between geographically separated human populations than within them
C)  different human populations can be assigned to different subspecies
D)  both b and c

Question 4

Blood type systems have been used in human classifications because:

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A)  blood types are easy to determine
B)  blood types are not affected by the environment
C)  the mechanisms of inheritance are,for the most part,known
D)  all of the above

Question 5

In a scientific sense,the term Negro:

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A)  refers to all of the dark-skinned people in the world
B)  refers to all of the dark-skinned people of Africa
C)  refers to all of the dark-skinned people of Africa and the United States
D)  is a term of sociological significance with no biological reality

Question 6

What is the nature of human variation? Include in your discussion the concepts of clinal distribution and discontinuous variation.

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Question 7

Human variation is:

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A)  static
B)  dynamic
C)  indescribable
D)  always clinal

Question 8

If we look at the distribution of skin color,red hair color,and B blood type in Europe we find that:

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A)  they all show clinal distributions from south to north
B)  they all show clinal distributions,but in different directions
C)  they do not all show clinal distributions

Question 9

What conclusions did Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza make about the nature of human variation? What relationship did his genetic divisions of humanity have to linguistic data?

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Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, a prominent g...

Question 10

The selective pressure acting on the ABO blood system may be that people with blood types O and B are resistant to:

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A)  sickle-cell anemia
B)  phenylketonuria
C)  smallpox
D)  tuberculosis

Question 11

What is the difference between a race and an ethnic group?

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A race is generally understood as a cate...

Question 12

The conclusion of genomic research is:

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A)  the number of dominant alleles is always greater than the number of recessive alleles in a population
B)  the differences between populations emerge at the genomic level
C)  there are genomic differences between some continental groups but not between others
D)  fixed groupings of people do not emerge from these studies

Question 13

Albinism is common among the Hopi because:

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A)  Native Americans carry the albino allele at higher rates
B)  being albino conferred a selective advantage against smallpox
C)  of Hopi cultural practices that favored albinos
D)  none of the above

Question 14

Most anthropologists now believe that IQ scores are:

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A)  valid measures of intelligence
B)  biased in favor of the groups for which and by whom they were designed
C)  influenced by general cultural background
D)  b and c

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A clinal distribution is also called:

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The conclusion of genomic research is:

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Human variation is:

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The selective pressure acting on the ABO blood system may be that people with blood types O and B are resistant to:

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Blood type systems have been used in human classifications because:

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If we look at the distribution of skin color,red hair color,and B blood type in Europe we find that:

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