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Ch1 Flashcards

1
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“the idea which seeks to understand another persons belief and behaviours from the perspective of their culture” is known as

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cultural relativism

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2
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father of american anthropology

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franz boas

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3
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study of relationship between language and cultures

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ethnolinguistics

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4
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mongloid race is represented by the

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chinese and japanese

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5
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indian racial classification by Herbert Hope

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indo-aryan
aryo-dravidian
scythio-dravidian

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6
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blood type that can receive blood from A, B, AB & O

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AB

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7
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how many pair of autosomes humans have?

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22

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8
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visualization of chromosomes under a microscope

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karyotype analysis

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9
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mendel’s experiment, law of independent assortment is based on the ratio

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9:3:3:1

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10
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what is genotype?

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the set of alleles carried by an organism

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11
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what is anthropomentry

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the science of measuring the different limbs of the body

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12
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physical anthropology deals with

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human evolution
human genetics
human biology

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13
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pedagogical anthropology

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education

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14
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the term ethnology was coined by

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Adam Franz Kollar

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15
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Taphonomy

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the study of how organisms become fossils

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16
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Uniformitarianism

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the principle indicating that the geological phenomenon burying landscapes today operated in the same way in the past

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17
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‘action anthropology’ who coined this term?

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Sol Tax

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18
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Superposition

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principle propounding layers stack over the time

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19
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Half life of 14C

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5730 years

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20
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radiocarbon dating was invented by

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JR Arnold
WF Libby

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21
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Filiations

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process by which individuals are socially attached to their parents

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22
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stratified samples fall under

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probability sampling design

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23
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cultural anthropology to understand human ecology and adaptation was introduced by

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Julian Steward

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24
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symbolic anthropology is a reaction to

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structuralism

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25
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best known as an ethnographer

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Margaret Mead

26
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concept of alienation was first introduced by

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Karl Marx

27
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study of aged and aging

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Gerontology

28
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which anthropologist indicates about ethnographic field work

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Bronislaw Malinowski

29
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sociolinguistics came to be called by _________

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hymes

30
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what is diffusion

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spread of customs or practices from one culture to another

31
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genealogy

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a chart depicting genetic relationship and transmission of inherited traits

32
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genetic drift

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founder effect

33
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macroevolution

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speciation

34
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who coined the term ‘anthropology’

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Boas

35
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field of anthropology that studies cross-cultural knowledge and the use of plants is called_____________

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Ethnobotany

36
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who coined the term ‘genetics’?

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william bateson

37
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who discovered ABO blood groups?

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Landsteiner

38
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O blood group child cannot have one of the parents with_________

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AB-group

39
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the attitude that you can understand or judge another culture in terms of your own culture is called__________

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Ethnocentrism

40
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Famous UNESCO statement of 1951 is associated with

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race and racism

41
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the word anthropology first appeared in renaissance Germany, in the works of _______________________________

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Magnus Hundt
Otto Casmann

42
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reproductive cell division

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Meiosis

43
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in the commonwealth countries which british tradition of anthropology tends to dominate?

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Social Anthropology

44
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four-field approach of anthropology

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Franz Boas

45
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in nature, the mode or strategy for survival is known as_________

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an adaptation

46
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Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead are students of________?

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Franz Boas

47
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Applied Anthropology includes

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Cultural resource management
hominid evolution

48
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Biological anthropology includes the study of

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Fossil record of human evolution
Human variation

49
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what is the overall goal of ‘participation observation’ field work?

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maximum about communities in the shortest time possible

50
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who said that sociology should relinquish every attempt at discovering origins and forms of evolution?

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Claude Levi Strauss

51
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Evolutionary Anthropologists

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E.B. Taylor
L.H. Morgan

52
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Father of modern anthropology

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Franz Boas

53
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concepts given by Mendel

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Law of independent assortment
Law of dominance
Law of segregation

54
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who has given the mutation theory?

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Hugo de Vries

55
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Theories of human evolution

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Natural selection
Genetic drift
Mutation

56
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what is a Genotype ?

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a genotype is the genetic makeup of an individual

57
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what is a Phenotype ?

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a phenotype is the observable expression of that genetic makeup

58
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genetic disorder caused by a recessive allele

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cystic fibriosis

59
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blood group that is a universal donor_________

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O-

60
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which theories of human evolution states that humans evolved from a common ancestor with the chimpanzees?

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The Killer Ape theory

61
Q

cranial capacity of homo erectus ?

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775-1300cc

62
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which term is used to describe a group of people who share a common biological ancestry?

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Race

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