ANTHRO 1 BIOLOGICAL
ANTHROPOLOGY SRJC exam 1
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Archaeology - ✔✔study past human societies, focusing mostly on their material
remains—such as animal and plant remains and places where people lived in the past.
Archaeologists are best known for their study of material objects called artifacts
Methylation - ✔✔a biochemical process that influences behavior by suppressing gene
activity and expression
Cultural Anthropology - ✔✔typically study present-day societies in non-Western
settings, such as in Africa, South America, or Australia.
Linguistics Anthropologists - ✔✔study the construction and use of language by human
societies. Language—defined as a set of written or spoken symbols that refer to things
(people, places, concepts, etc.) other than themselves—makes possible the transfer of
knowledge from one person to the next and from one generation to the next.
Anthropology - ✔✔the study of humans at all times in all places, the study of
humankind.
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, Physical Anthropology/biological - ✔✔study all aspects of present and past human
biology.
Culture - ✔✔Learned behavior that is transmitted from person to person.
Science - ✔✔a way of doing something to gain knowledge based on observation and
experiments
Critical Thinking - ✔✔observe things as they actually are without falsifying or
prejudging
Scientific Method - ✔✔Observation Hypothesis Experiment Results Theory
The Childbed Fever - ✔✔nearly 20% of the women died shortly after birth in Division I
under the care of physicians and male medical students this death rate was 4 to 5 times
greater than the death toll in Division II under the care of female midwifery students
the physicians and male medical students did not wash hands after dealing with a
cadaver the lack of sanitization led to "Childbed Fever" the institution of a strict hand
washing policy greatly reduced the number of deaths in Division I
Linguistic Anthropology - ✔✔The study of human language in the past and present.
4 subfields of anthropology - ✔✔archaeology, biological, cultural, linguistic
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ANTHROPOLOGY SRJC exam 1
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
Archaeology - ✔✔study past human societies, focusing mostly on their material
remains—such as animal and plant remains and places where people lived in the past.
Archaeologists are best known for their study of material objects called artifacts
Methylation - ✔✔a biochemical process that influences behavior by suppressing gene
activity and expression
Cultural Anthropology - ✔✔typically study present-day societies in non-Western
settings, such as in Africa, South America, or Australia.
Linguistics Anthropologists - ✔✔study the construction and use of language by human
societies. Language—defined as a set of written or spoken symbols that refer to things
(people, places, concepts, etc.) other than themselves—makes possible the transfer of
knowledge from one person to the next and from one generation to the next.
Anthropology - ✔✔the study of humans at all times in all places, the study of
humankind.
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, Physical Anthropology/biological - ✔✔study all aspects of present and past human
biology.
Culture - ✔✔Learned behavior that is transmitted from person to person.
Science - ✔✔a way of doing something to gain knowledge based on observation and
experiments
Critical Thinking - ✔✔observe things as they actually are without falsifying or
prejudging
Scientific Method - ✔✔Observation Hypothesis Experiment Results Theory
The Childbed Fever - ✔✔nearly 20% of the women died shortly after birth in Division I
under the care of physicians and male medical students this death rate was 4 to 5 times
greater than the death toll in Division II under the care of female midwifery students
the physicians and male medical students did not wash hands after dealing with a
cadaver the lack of sanitization led to "Childbed Fever" the institution of a strict hand
washing policy greatly reduced the number of deaths in Division I
Linguistic Anthropology - ✔✔The study of human language in the past and present.
4 subfields of anthropology - ✔✔archaeology, biological, cultural, linguistic
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