Anthropology 101 Study Questions and Answers All Correct
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Anthropology 101
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Anthropology 101
Anthropology 101 Study Questions and Answers All Correct
- Answer-is progressive in that old understandings form the basis for new research
Pseudoscience is - Answer-scientifically testable ideas that are taken on faith, even if tested and shown to be false
Evolution is a - Answer-theory, ...
Anthropology 101 Study Questions and Answers All Correct As a body of knowledge, science - Answer -is progressive in that old understandings form the basis for new research Pseudoscience is - Answer -scientifically testable ideas that are taken on faith, even if tested and shown to be false Evolution is a - Answer -theory, fact and a hypothesis Science as a Methodology - Answer -requires the testing of hypothesis which will be accepted, rejected or revised depending on the results An understanding as to how science works and what constitutes scientific knowledge is - Answer -is important for everyone who has to make choices about medical care, genetic testing, food safety and environmental issues Lamarck's Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics states - Answer -constant use of a trait in an individuals lifetime will strengthen the trait and this change can be passed onto offspring The measure of fitness in natural selection is - Answer -how many offspring are reproduced by the individual which live to a reproductive age Current knowledge of the earth and life on earth states - Answer -the earth and life on earth are billions of years old You are entitled to your own opinions but not your own facts - Answer -facts are objective knowledge that have been tested over and over and are accepted as almost absolute and seen as unlikely to ever be overturned. Science is - Answer -correctable, scientific knowledge is an open system subject to change in relationship to the data that is collected Ear wax is a monogenic trait and there are two possible alleles. There is an allele for wet, dry, sticky ear wax and an allele for dry, gray, flaky earwax. Wet ear wax is dominant and dry ear wax is recessive. If an individual has one recessive allele and one dominant allele... - Answer -they are heterozygous for this trait
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