ANTH 161 MIDTERM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2025
Anthropologists study which of the following? - Answers humankind in all its forms across all
time
What was the result of the Scopes Monkey Trial? - Answers Scopes was found guilty of teaching
evolution and lost his job.
In the mid-1800s, Darwin's On the Origin of Species introduced what new idea? - Answers
human variation is the product of the interaction between biology and the environment
Science is a(n) __________, not a __________. - Answers process; result
After September 11, 2001, ____________ helped to identify the remains of the victims to bring
closure to grieving families. - Answers forensic anthropologists
Aristotle believed in the "immutability of species." This means he felt that species __________. -
Answers are fixed and unchanging
The artifacts and implements of our daily lives are collectively referred to as __________. -
Answers material culture
Ethnology is considered a subfield of __________. - Answers cultural anthropology
Which of the following is most likely to be conducted by a cultural anthropologist? - Answers a
comparison of wedding rituals
What was one possible reason evolutionary thought remained stifled in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries? - Answers Naturalists still tried to fit their observations of the natural
world into church doctrine.
Biocultural anthropology recognizes that __________. - Answers culture can influence biology
Anthropology is unique because of its _________ - Answers cultural and biological perspective
What does taxonomy refer to? - Answers the science of classifying and naming organisms
What is the neo-Darwinian synthesis? - Answers the merging of genetics, anatomy, ecology,
behavior and evolutionary theory
What did John Gould determine when studying Darwin's collected finch specimens from the
Galapagos Islands? - Answers The finches could be sorted into different species and by island
based on beak differences.
________ is the genetic makeup of an individual while ________ is the observable feature of an
organism. - Answers genotype, phenotype
The small number of differences between human and chimpanzee DNA indicates that the
, physical and behavioral differences between the species result primarily from ______ rather than
________ genes. - Answers regulatory, structural
If in a diploid organism two different alleles of a gene are both expressed in a heterozygous
individual, the condition is termed ________. - Answers co-dominant
Obesity is an example of genotype and environment interacting in order to produce _________. -
Answers phenotype
__________ is the pre-Mendelian idea that both parents contribute equally to offspring and that
these contributions are halved in successive generations. - Answers blending inheritance
Gregor Mendel discovered the basic principles of __________. - Answers particulate inheritance
Which of the following is a postulate of Mendel's? - Answers A. During the formation of gametes,
the paired unit factors separate, or segregate, randomly so that each sex cell receives one or the
other with equal likelihood.
B. During gamete formation, segregating pairs of unit factors assort independently o each other.
C. Hereditary characteristics are controlled by particulate unit factors that exist in pairs in
individual organisms.
D. all of the above
Answer: D
The concept of linkage says that - Answers the likelihood that genes will be separated during
crossing over is lessened by closer placement on the chromosome
The type of mutation that is important for evolution is - Answers those that occur in gametes
Trinucleotide repeat diseases are caused by - Answers insertion mutations
Which of the following is a bad mutation? - Answers a CAG repeat
Mutations are important in evolution because - Answers they are the only source of new
variation in populations
X-chromosome linked disorders affect - Answers mostly males
Anthropologists study which of the following? - Answers humankind in all its forms across all
time
What was the result of the Scopes Monkey Trial? - Answers Scopes was found guilty of teaching
evolution and lost his job.
In the mid-1800s, Darwin's On the Origin of Species introduced what new idea? - Answers
human variation is the product of the interaction between biology and the environment
Science is a(n) __________, not a __________. - Answers process; result
After September 11, 2001, ____________ helped to identify the remains of the victims to bring
closure to grieving families. - Answers forensic anthropologists
Aristotle believed in the "immutability of species." This means he felt that species __________. -
Answers are fixed and unchanging
The artifacts and implements of our daily lives are collectively referred to as __________. -
Answers material culture
Ethnology is considered a subfield of __________. - Answers cultural anthropology
Which of the following is most likely to be conducted by a cultural anthropologist? - Answers a
comparison of wedding rituals
What was one possible reason evolutionary thought remained stifled in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries? - Answers Naturalists still tried to fit their observations of the natural
world into church doctrine.
Biocultural anthropology recognizes that __________. - Answers culture can influence biology
Anthropology is unique because of its _________ - Answers cultural and biological perspective
What does taxonomy refer to? - Answers the science of classifying and naming organisms
What is the neo-Darwinian synthesis? - Answers the merging of genetics, anatomy, ecology,
behavior and evolutionary theory
What did John Gould determine when studying Darwin's collected finch specimens from the
Galapagos Islands? - Answers The finches could be sorted into different species and by island
based on beak differences.
________ is the genetic makeup of an individual while ________ is the observable feature of an
organism. - Answers genotype, phenotype
The small number of differences between human and chimpanzee DNA indicates that the
, physical and behavioral differences between the species result primarily from ______ rather than
________ genes. - Answers regulatory, structural
If in a diploid organism two different alleles of a gene are both expressed in a heterozygous
individual, the condition is termed ________. - Answers co-dominant
Obesity is an example of genotype and environment interacting in order to produce _________. -
Answers phenotype
__________ is the pre-Mendelian idea that both parents contribute equally to offspring and that
these contributions are halved in successive generations. - Answers blending inheritance
Gregor Mendel discovered the basic principles of __________. - Answers particulate inheritance
Which of the following is a postulate of Mendel's? - Answers A. During the formation of gametes,
the paired unit factors separate, or segregate, randomly so that each sex cell receives one or the
other with equal likelihood.
B. During gamete formation, segregating pairs of unit factors assort independently o each other.
C. Hereditary characteristics are controlled by particulate unit factors that exist in pairs in
individual organisms.
D. all of the above
Answer: D
The concept of linkage says that - Answers the likelihood that genes will be separated during
crossing over is lessened by closer placement on the chromosome
The type of mutation that is important for evolution is - Answers those that occur in gametes
Trinucleotide repeat diseases are caused by - Answers insertion mutations
Which of the following is a bad mutation? - Answers a CAG repeat
Mutations are important in evolution because - Answers they are the only source of new
variation in populations
X-chromosome linked disorders affect - Answers mostly males
