Ch. 13 Key Terms

Question 1

Sex

Answer 1

The biological categories and characteristics of males and females.

Question 2

Gender

Answer 2

The cultural categories and characteristics of men and women

Question 3

Folk Taxonomies

Answer 3

Cultural classifications of important items and ideas.

Question 4

Subspecies

Answer 4

Physically distinguishable populations within a species

Question 5

Races

Answer 5

In biology, the same as subspecies. In culture, cultural categories to classify and account for human physical diversity

Question 6

Cline

Answer 6

A geographic continuum in the variation of a particular trait

Question 7

Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP)

Answer 7

A single base pair for the genetic code that displa3y variable expressions among individuals

Question 8

Haplotype

Answer 8

A combination of linked SNPs along a chromosome or stretch of DNA

Question 9

Endogamy

Answer 9

Restricting marriage to members of the same culturally defined group

Question 10

Racism

Answer 10

Judging individual based solely on his or her racial affiliation

Question 11

Reification

Answer 11

Translating a complex set of phenomena into a single entity such as a number.