WSU Anthropology 101 questions and answers graded A+ 2023/2024

WSU Anthropology 101 Anthropology - correct answer The scientific study of human beings, looking at how cultures are dif/similar Cladogenesis - correct answer Speciation through branching so two or more species are formed Anagenesis - correct answer directional shift in a populations average characteristics (straight line) Charles Darwin - correct answer "on the origin of species" 1800s, HMS Beagle, Darwinnian fitness - correct answer the ability of an individual to survive and reproduce in its environment Alfred Wallace - correct answer comes up with natural selection Culture - correct answer shared ideas, values, beliefs used to make sense of experience and generate behavior, often unconscious, socially learned 4 Subfields of Anthropology - correct answer Physical/Biological, Archaeology, Linguistic, Cultural/Sociocultural Cultural Anth - correct answer study of traditions Archaeology Anth - correct answer artifacts Linguistic Anth - correct answer languages developed and influenced Biological Anth - correct answer evolution and genetics, biological perspective 4 Evolutionary Forces - correct answer Mutation, Genetic Drift, Gene Flow, Natural Selection 4 Forces of Evolution - correct answer Gene, Allele, Genotype, Phenotype Mutation - correct answer Random chemical change in genetic material for variation Genetic Drift - correct answer Shift in the gene pool due to chance events (Earthquake,rockslide) Gene Flow - correct answer Intro of new alleles from nearby populations Punctuated equilibria - correct answer macroevolutionary change over long periods of stability/stasis punctuated by periods of rapid change Natural Selection - correct answer Process through which factors in the environment exert pressure that favors some over others to reproduce Stabilizing selection - correct answer N.S. acting to promote stability rather than change in a pops. gene pool Directional selection - correct answer N.S.: extreme phenotype is favored over other phenotypes, causing the allele frequency to shift over time in the direction of that phenotype. Disruptive selection - correct answer extreme values for a trait are favored over intermediate values. N.S. Competition - correct answer environment presents a carry capacity that checks the growth gap of a pop. N.S. Variation - correct answer all populations display variation and some is found in traits that affect the ability of individuals to survive and reproduce