Anthropology Midterm (1-7)

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Many primate societies are complexly organized, enabling their members to form alliances including by?

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Rank, Age, and kinship.

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Natural selection favors behaviors that enhance:

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Survival and reproduction

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Monogamous:

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Refers to a social group that includes an adult male, an adult female, and their offspring.

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Quality in feeding strategy refers to:

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A food's providing energy and protein that are readily digestible.

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Distribution refers to

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The location of food across the landscape.

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Why are primates social in the long term?

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To reduce stress, promote longevity, and enhance reproductive success.

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Female reproductive strategies emphasize?

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caring for young and ensuring access to food.

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How do primates communicate?

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Through vocalizations that serve a range of functions and contexts.

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A male and female gibbon that are similar in size are likely showing:

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The lack of sexual dimorphism due to decreased competition for mates in a monogamous social structure.

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Not known primate residence patterns

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All-female; multimale, one female; solitary.

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Charles Darwin's book on the origen of spices (1959) was considered an important contribution to modern science because:

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It synthesized information from diverse scientific fields in order to document evolutionary change.

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Unformitarianism is the theory that:

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The natural processes operating today are the same as the natural process that operated in the past.

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Why is the work of Alfred Russell Wallace, considered when discussing the theory of evolution?

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He was an English naturalist who had arrived at many of the same conclusions as Darwin through his own research in the Amazon.

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Thomas Malthu's contribution to natural selection is:

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The theory that events like warfare, disease, and famine are necessary to control population size and thereby reduce the risk of depleting resources.

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Darwinian evolution proposes that :

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Species adapt and change over time based on their environments.

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The forces of evolution include:

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Natural selection, gene flow, genetic drift, and mutations.

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The geneticists who studied the workings of fruit flies' chromosomes was :

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Thomas Hunt Morgan

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Fossils represent the remains of once- living:

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Extinct organisms that provide a record of the history of life on the planet.

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The scientist whose work provided the foundation for later understanding of genetics was?

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Gregor Mendel

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Gene flow differs from genetic drift because

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It is the spread of new genetic material from one gene pool to another.

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Somatic cells include all of the following EXCEPT

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Gametes

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Nucleotide bases in nuclear DNA include all of the following except

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Uracial

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The following are complementary bases of DNA

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Adenine and thymine

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DNA replication produces

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Two identical daughter cells

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In mammals, the male parent's gametes determine the sex of his offspring because

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The Y chromosome vis present in males only

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Proteins consist of

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Chains of amino acids

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Transcription

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Occurs in the nucleus

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Homeotic (Hox) genes are

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Responsible for the development and location of key body parts

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Individuals whose blood type is A and who carry both dominant and recessive genes at this locus have a genotype of

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AO

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The two alleles that result in the expressed phenotype for hemoglobin are equally expressed. This is an example of

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Codominance

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Malaria is caused by

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Bites from infected mosquitos

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Together, all of the alleles contained within a group of interbreeding individuals is known as a

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A gene pool

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Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium assumes:

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No gene flow, mutation, or natural selection.

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In certain spices of nonhuman primates there are groups where only one dominant female has access to mates. Te other females must wait until the opportunity to gain mate access presents itself . This will have direct impacts on "fitness," influencing...

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Reproductive success

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Another name for the evolutionary force called gene flow is

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Admixture

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Australian aborigines are an endogamous society. This means that marriage and reproduction take place within the group , leading to

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Decrease genetic diversity due to a lack of admixture