Anthropology questions and answers in October 2021

Scenario: To Keep or Not to Keep  Characters:  Dr. Sandra, archaeologist with a federal agency  Dr. Noreen, contract archaeologist  Mr. Ned, collections manager    A large, five-year CRM contrac...
Scenario: To Keep or Not to Keep  Characters:  Dr. Sandra, archaeologist with a federal agency  Dr. Noreen, contract archaeologist  Mr. Ned, collections manager    A large, five-year CRM contrac...
How do we ensure a future for all primates, human and nonhuman? How do we coexist with non- human primates? Why is it important to preserve non-human primates? What do we lose when non-human primates...
Referring to the video and using specific examples from the video, write a paragraph about the significance of epigenetics in human phenotypes and development.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp1bZ...
In the short video introducing Malinowski (we'll see him  again in our discussion of economic and political systems  later in the course), it is mentioned that Malinowski went from  the armchair to...
a) What is the responsibility of anthropologists to the people they study? b) American Anthropological Association developed statement of ethics: read the ethics statement (in Week 1 Module) and write...
Did you express ethnocentrism or cultural relativism when seeing this video? What would be a cultural reason or idea behind this activity? Discuss. What is your perspective regarding your own cultural...
Why might a particular point mutation be "invisible" to natural selection? a. If it's on the X chromosome it won't affect males. b. Point mutations only affect ribosomes, not genes. c. Some ...
Whether an allele is dominant or recessive is defined by: O a. how common the allele is relative to its alternative alleles. b. whether it is inherited from the mother or the father. O c. what half of...
Natural selection can be described as: Q a. the survival of the physically fit. b. the passage of traits from generation to generation. 0. the retention of variants that fit well with the environmen...
In Mendel's experiments with pea plants, tall and short were alleles of each other. How do you decide if two genes are alleles of each other? 0 a. One codes for mRNA and one codes for tRNA. 0 b. They ...
DNA is a platform for evolution on planet Earth because: 0 a. it is cheap to make. 0 b. it copies itself very accurately. O c. it is a polymer with repeated sugar and phosphate molecules. 0 d. it has ...
Adult humans are diploid; diploid means: 0 a. in the DNA, for every sugar molecule, there is an attached phosphate molecule. 0 b. for every base in the DNA structure, there is a match (A with T, C wit...
QUESTION 47 Where do the Dani people live? O a. Greenland O b. Madagascar O C. New Guinea O d. Hawaii O e. Iceland QUESTION 48 The idea that criticizing a custom carried out in another culture should ...
QUESTION 44 Why do the Dani people cut off young girls' little fingers? O a. To punish them O b. To insult them To annoy the local Catholic missionaries O d.Because they are afraid of souls of the rec...
 . QUESTION 31 Which anthropologist studied the kula ring? O a. David Hicks O b. E. E. Evans-Pritchard O C. Edward Tylor O d. Franz Boas O e. None of the above QUESTION 32 Bronislaw Malinowski is mos...
QUESTION 4 The word "etic" refers to: O a. The model a member of his or her society has of his own society O b. The way in which an ethnographer establishes contact with important members of...
QUESTION 1 The opposition made or detected by human beings between nature and culture has been shown by archaeological evidence to go back at least O a. 200 years b. 4,000 years O C. 1,000 years O d. ...