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Anthropologists study which of the following? - Answer: humankind in all its forms
across all time
What was the result of the Scopes Monkey Trial? - Answer: Scopes was found guilty of
teaching evolution and lost his job.
In the mid-1800s, Darwin's On the Origin of Species introduced what new idea? -
Answer: human variation is the product of the interaction between biology and the
environment
Science is a(n) __________, not a __________. - Answer: process; result
After September 11, 2001, ____________ helped to identify the remains of the victims
to bring closure to grieving families. - Answer: forensic anthropologists
Aristotle believed in the "immutability of species." This means he felt that species
__________. - Answer: are fixed and unchanging
The artifacts and implements of our daily lives are collectively referred to as
__________. - Answer: material culture
Ethnology is considered a subfield of __________. - Answer: cultural anthropology
Which of the following is most likely to be conducted by a cultural anthropologist? -
Answer: a comparison of wedding rituals
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, What was one possible reason evolutionary thought remained stifled in the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries? - Answer: Naturalists still tried to fit their observations of the
natural world into church doctrine.
Biocultural anthropology recognizes that __________. - Answer: culture can influence
biology
Anthropology is unique because of its _________ - Answer: cultural and biological
perspective
What does taxonomy refer to? - Answer: the science of classifying and naming
organisms
What is the neo-Darwinian synthesis? - Answer: the merging of genetics, anatomy,
ecology, behavior and evolutionary theory
What did John Gould determine when studying Darwin's collected finch specimens from
the Galapagos Islands? - Answer: The finches could be sorted into different species and
by island based on beak differences.
________ is the genetic makeup of an individual while ________ is the observable
feature of an organism. - Answer: genotype, phenotype
The small number of differences between human and chimpanzee DNA indicates that
the physical and behavioral differences between the species result primarily from
______ rather than ________ genes. - Answer: regulatory, structural
If in a diploid organism two different alleles of a gene are both expressed in a
heterozygous individual, the condition is termed ________. - Answer: co-dominant
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EVERY SCORE SECURED!
Anthropologists study which of the following? - Answer: humankind in all its forms
across all time
What was the result of the Scopes Monkey Trial? - Answer: Scopes was found guilty of
teaching evolution and lost his job.
In the mid-1800s, Darwin's On the Origin of Species introduced what new idea? -
Answer: human variation is the product of the interaction between biology and the
environment
Science is a(n) __________, not a __________. - Answer: process; result
After September 11, 2001, ____________ helped to identify the remains of the victims
to bring closure to grieving families. - Answer: forensic anthropologists
Aristotle believed in the "immutability of species." This means he felt that species
__________. - Answer: are fixed and unchanging
The artifacts and implements of our daily lives are collectively referred to as
__________. - Answer: material culture
Ethnology is considered a subfield of __________. - Answer: cultural anthropology
Which of the following is most likely to be conducted by a cultural anthropologist? -
Answer: a comparison of wedding rituals
1
APPHIA - Crafted with Care and Precision for Academic Excellence.
, What was one possible reason evolutionary thought remained stifled in the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries? - Answer: Naturalists still tried to fit their observations of the
natural world into church doctrine.
Biocultural anthropology recognizes that __________. - Answer: culture can influence
biology
Anthropology is unique because of its _________ - Answer: cultural and biological
perspective
What does taxonomy refer to? - Answer: the science of classifying and naming
organisms
What is the neo-Darwinian synthesis? - Answer: the merging of genetics, anatomy,
ecology, behavior and evolutionary theory
What did John Gould determine when studying Darwin's collected finch specimens from
the Galapagos Islands? - Answer: The finches could be sorted into different species and
by island based on beak differences.
________ is the genetic makeup of an individual while ________ is the observable
feature of an organism. - Answer: genotype, phenotype
The small number of differences between human and chimpanzee DNA indicates that
the physical and behavioral differences between the species result primarily from
______ rather than ________ genes. - Answer: regulatory, structural
If in a diploid organism two different alleles of a gene are both expressed in a
heterozygous individual, the condition is termed ________. - Answer: co-dominant
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