ANTHRO 101 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
/. 3 ingredients of natural selection - Answer-✅variation, inheritance, reproduction
/.natural selection - Answer-✅A process in which individuals that have certain inherited
traits tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other individuals because of
those traits.
/.Charles Darwin - Answer-✅English naturalist. He studied the plants and animals of
South America and the Pacific islands, and in his book On the Origin of Species by
Means of Natural Selection (1859) set forth his theory of evolution.
/.Adaptations - Answer-✅traits that improve an individual's ability to survive and
reproduce
/.Morphology - Answer-✅study of form
/.Equilibrium - Answer-✅a state in which opposing forces or influences are balanced.
/.continous variation - Answer-✅variation in a population showing an unbroken range of
phenotypes rather than discrete categories
/.stabalizing selection - Answer-✅natural selection that favors average individuals in a
population; results in a decline in population variation
/.Species - Answer-✅Dynamic population of individuals
/.Stasis - Answer-✅Staying the same
/.fecundity - Answer-✅fertility
/.Discontinous variation - Answer-✅variation shown when the characteristics or
organisms fall into distinct categories e.g. blood groups in humans.
/.placental mammals - Answer-✅Mammals that nourish their unborn offspring through a
placenta (cord) inside the female mammal.
/.blending inheritance - Answer-✅parental traits blend such that their offspring have
intermediate traits
, /.Anthropology - Answer-✅Study of the origins and development of people and their
societies
/.Culture - Answer-✅Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.
/.Subfields of Anthropology - Answer-✅Linguistics, Acheaology, Cultural, Biological
/.Biological Anthropology - Answer-✅the study of humans as biological organisms,
including evolution and contemporary variation
/.Anthropology Subfields - Answer-✅Human biology, primatology, paleoanthropology,
skeletal biology, osteology, paleopathology, forensic anthropology
/.Paleoanthropology - Answer-✅the study of the history of human evolution through the
fossil record
/.Skeletal Biology - Answer-✅The study of the anatomy and biology of the skeleton
/.Osteology - Answer-✅The study of anatomy, structure, and function of the bones.
/.Paleopathology - Answer-✅the study of diseases in ancestral human populations
/.Forensic Anthropology - Answer-✅the study of physical anthropology as it applies to
human skeletal remains in a legal setting
/.Primatology - Answer-✅the study of living nonhuman primates as well as primate
fossils to better understand human evolution and early human behavior
/.What is science? - Answer-✅An organized way of gathering and analyzing evidence
about the natural world.
/.scientifc method - Answer-✅scientific procedures used to solve problems and answer
questions.
/.Classification - Answer-✅The process of grouping things based on their similarities
/.Taxonomy - Answer-✅The scientific study of how living things are classified
/.binomial nomenclature - Answer-✅Classification system in which each species is
assigned a two-part scientific name
/.Genius and species - Answer-✅Latin name, species name eg. Homosapien/Human
AND ANSWERS
/. 3 ingredients of natural selection - Answer-✅variation, inheritance, reproduction
/.natural selection - Answer-✅A process in which individuals that have certain inherited
traits tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other individuals because of
those traits.
/.Charles Darwin - Answer-✅English naturalist. He studied the plants and animals of
South America and the Pacific islands, and in his book On the Origin of Species by
Means of Natural Selection (1859) set forth his theory of evolution.
/.Adaptations - Answer-✅traits that improve an individual's ability to survive and
reproduce
/.Morphology - Answer-✅study of form
/.Equilibrium - Answer-✅a state in which opposing forces or influences are balanced.
/.continous variation - Answer-✅variation in a population showing an unbroken range of
phenotypes rather than discrete categories
/.stabalizing selection - Answer-✅natural selection that favors average individuals in a
population; results in a decline in population variation
/.Species - Answer-✅Dynamic population of individuals
/.Stasis - Answer-✅Staying the same
/.fecundity - Answer-✅fertility
/.Discontinous variation - Answer-✅variation shown when the characteristics or
organisms fall into distinct categories e.g. blood groups in humans.
/.placental mammals - Answer-✅Mammals that nourish their unborn offspring through a
placenta (cord) inside the female mammal.
/.blending inheritance - Answer-✅parental traits blend such that their offspring have
intermediate traits
, /.Anthropology - Answer-✅Study of the origins and development of people and their
societies
/.Culture - Answer-✅Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.
/.Subfields of Anthropology - Answer-✅Linguistics, Acheaology, Cultural, Biological
/.Biological Anthropology - Answer-✅the study of humans as biological organisms,
including evolution and contemporary variation
/.Anthropology Subfields - Answer-✅Human biology, primatology, paleoanthropology,
skeletal biology, osteology, paleopathology, forensic anthropology
/.Paleoanthropology - Answer-✅the study of the history of human evolution through the
fossil record
/.Skeletal Biology - Answer-✅The study of the anatomy and biology of the skeleton
/.Osteology - Answer-✅The study of anatomy, structure, and function of the bones.
/.Paleopathology - Answer-✅the study of diseases in ancestral human populations
/.Forensic Anthropology - Answer-✅the study of physical anthropology as it applies to
human skeletal remains in a legal setting
/.Primatology - Answer-✅the study of living nonhuman primates as well as primate
fossils to better understand human evolution and early human behavior
/.What is science? - Answer-✅An organized way of gathering and analyzing evidence
about the natural world.
/.scientifc method - Answer-✅scientific procedures used to solve problems and answer
questions.
/.Classification - Answer-✅The process of grouping things based on their similarities
/.Taxonomy - Answer-✅The scientific study of how living things are classified
/.binomial nomenclature - Answer-✅Classification system in which each species is
assigned a two-part scientific name
/.Genius and species - Answer-✅Latin name, species name eg. Homosapien/Human
