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