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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 There are no pure races
C there has been continual genetic drift throughout the human range
D some diagnostic traits, such as skin color, are due to nutrition in adition to heredity
Question #2
A Show that Europeans and Africans are easily distuinguishable, but Asians are hard to classify
B correspond to the major continents
C easily sorted into 3 or 4 major groups
D show continuous clinal variation across space
Question #3
A show no signficant differences in intelligence among human populations
B can discriminate between genetic and cultural factors in native intelligence
C are culturally biased
D Are a reliable indicator of genetic differences in intelligence
Question #4
A a clearly defined biological breeding population
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 group of people defined statistically by clusters of linked genetic traits
Question #5
A gradual variation in genetic traits across geographic regions
B the genetically determined ability to sing on key
C subtle variations in skin color among racial groups
D Genetic variation with the Cline family lineage.
Question #6
A to have greater lung capacity than people from colder climates
B to have more hair than people from colder climates
C to have fewer toes than people from colder climates
D to have longer legs and arms that people from cold climates
Question #7
A culturally arbitrary, even though most people assume them to be based on biology
B based on genealogical records
C applied to endogamous breeding populations
D based on DNA testing
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 Brazilians are more concerned about race than are Americans
D Americans are more logical in their classification of racial types
E there is greater human variation in Brazil than in the United States
Question #9
A present in all people of West African descent.
B always debilitating
C the result of genetic experiments gone awry.
D a genetic adaption to the malarial parasite
Question #10
A Have stocky builds
B Show no signs of genetic adaptation to altitude
C Show acclimatization to altitude due to developmental plasticity
D Have undergone genetic selection for larger chests and greater lung capacity