Week 5 Quiz

A  cellular aging

B  aging

C  Senescence

D  differentiation

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  Estroidials

B  Oxytocin

C  Testosterone

D  Estrogens

A  The forager diet is high in wild meats

B  The modern diet does not utilize processed sugars and oils

C  The modern diet is high in grains and dairy

D  The foraging diet is high in fiber from fruits and vegetables

A  Aging is due to the gradual decline of our immune system

B  Humans age because of our harsh environments

C  Humans decline rapidly after we are no longer able to reproduce and contribute to natural selection

D  Aging is caused by malfunctioning regulator genes

A  Women have evolved levels of dominant behavior that help scare away predators from their children, while men have evolved levels of empathetic behavior in order to attract more females

B  Women have evolved to be more muscular than men in order to carry their children around to protect them, while men have evolved to retain more body fat in order to survive long hunts.

C  Testosterone in men has influenced behaviors correlated with hunting, while estrogens in women have influenced behaviors correlated with childrearing and gathering techniques.

D  Men have evolved a higher level of estrogen than women in order to create relationships with other males that will protect them on dangerous hunts, while women have evolved higher levels of testosterone to protect their children.

A  Estrogen mimicking chemicals call xenoestrogens

B  Increased amount of fat

C  Sexual activity

D  Stressful life events

A  Poor nutrition in pregnancy helps a baby adapt to food shortages later in life

B  ing pregnancy, a malnourished mother can produce a child that is low birth weight and has a poor immune system

C  Since females develop their eggs in utero, a malnourished mother can cause damage to her grandchildren

D  Malnourished babies are at risk for later neuropsychological problems including poor school achievement

A  50%

B  25%

C  75%

D  15%

A  When immunity grows naturally among a group of people since they come in contact with more of the disease

B  When most individuals in a group are vaccinated, protecting those who are not

C  The ability of humans to gain immunity to diseases by living with herds of animals

D  The ability of herds of animals to pass infections on to another species

A  Our body raises its internal temperature to kill of microbes

B  Our body lowers its internal temperature in order to “freeze out” microbes

C  Our body immobilizes the immune system to attack foreign microbes

D  Our immune system creates antibodies that create a memory of that microbe so our body can attack it more quickly in the future

A  Most people in the world today are overweight

B  Urban populations see the highest rates of obesity

C  People in rural populations with minimal technology tend to be the heaviest

D  As smaller scale societies acculturate to more urban/modernized environments, their levels of obesity increase

A  Being heavier is biologically more attractive

B  Early foragers did not choose individuals who were heavier as partners, obesity today is the result of poor eating habits

C  Early foragers experienced consistent food shortages

D  A heavier body is a sign of fertility among women, so men would choose women who were heavier to procreate healthy children

A  People prefer heavier bodies for sex

B  Fat helps to prevent the development of various cancers

C  Homo sapiens evolved in cold areas and needed to keep warm

D  Early foragers experienced consistent food shortages

A  Protection from cancer

B  Destruction of folate B

C  Regulation of vitamin D

D  Need to regulate body temperature

A  The numbers of melanocytes

B  Large quantities of pheomelanin

C  Large quantities of eumelanin

D  The amount of melanin

A  Human variation is continuous, there is no dividing line of a trait between “races.”

B  Human variation is non-concordant. If we had races, we would have several distinct traits per race.

C  Humans have been interbreeding for thousands of years and are similar genetically.

D  Race has become biological through inequality