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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A racial classifications reflect cultural, not biological categories
B some diagnostic traits, such as skin color, are due to nutrition in adition to heredity
C there has been continual genetic drift throughout the human range
D There are no pure races
Question #2
A show continuous clinal variation across space
B correspond to the major continents
C Show that Europeans and Africans are easily distuinguishable, but Asians are hard to classify
D easily sorted into 3 or 4 major groups
Question #3
A Are a reliable indicator of genetic differences in intelligence
B show no signficant differences in intelligence among human populations
C can discriminate between genetic and cultural factors in native intelligence
D are culturally biased
Question #4
A a group of people defined statistically by clusters of linked genetic traits
B the product of natural selection occurring over thousands of years
C a biological classification based on the presence or absence of specific genetic traits
D a social classification that is often assumed to have a biological basis
E a clearly defined biological breeding population
Question #5
A subtle variations in skin color among racial groups
B Genetic variation with the Cline family lineage.
C the genetically determined ability to sing on key
D gradual variation in genetic traits across geographic regions
Question #6
A to have longer legs and arms that people from cold climates
B to have fewer toes than people from colder climates
C to have greater lung capacity than people from colder climates
D to have more hair than people from colder climates
Question #7
A applied to endogamous breeding populations
B culturally arbitrary, even though most people assume them to be based on biology
C based on DNA testing
D based on genealogical records
Question #8
A Portugese is a richer, more expressive language than English
B in both societies racial classification is a cultural taxonomy reflecting a particular world view
C Americans are more logical in their classification of racial types
D there is greater human variation in Brazil than in the United States
E Brazilians are more concerned about race than are Americans
Question #9
A the result of genetic experiments gone awry.
B present in all people of West African descent.
C a genetic adaption to the malarial parasite
D always debilitating
Question #10
A Show acclimatization to altitude due to developmental plasticity
B Have undergone genetic selection for larger chests and greater lung capacity
C Show no signs of genetic adaptation to altitude
D Have stocky builds
