Lecture 2

Question 1

Why are people genetically different?

Answer 1

Individual variation
Race variation
Subgroup Variation

Question 2

Are humans once species?

Answer 2

Initially thought No due to skin colour

Question 3

Cal Von Linne’s theory

Answer 3

That there were 4 classification by skin colour and place of living

Question 4

What did the skin colour affect in the political world

Answer 4

Pro-Slavery Lobby had a Linnean view on race

Question 5

Polygeny

Answer 5

many origins of people

Question 6

Eugenics movement

Answer 6

better genetics than one group ended up in forced steralization

Question 7

What was wrong with Coon’s hypothesis?

Answer 7

Genes weren’t tested and the evidence wasn’t there

Question 8

When did ABO typing start and by who

Answer 8

Landsteiner in the early 1900’s

Question 9

Allozymes/Isoenzymes

Answer 9

enzymes in multiple forms

Question 10

How can Allozymes/Isoenzymes be seperated?

Answer 10

By electrophoresis, dye to make them coloured

Question 11

Genetic testing of genes for race started in

Answer 11

1972

Question 12

What was the percentage of the genetic variation

Answer 12

individual variation: 85%
sub groups variation: 8.3%
race variation: 6.5%

Question 13

Race is not genetically seen so it is a

Answer 13

social construct

Question 14

Done again with DNA testing what were the results

Answer 14

The same race is a social concept