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ANTHRO 1 BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY SRJC Exam 1 Questions and Answers
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ANTHRO 1 BIOLOGICALANTHROPOLOGY SRJC Exam 1
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Archaeology - Answers -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 - Answers -a biochemical process that influences behavior by suppressing
gene activity and expression
Cultural Anthropology - Answers -typically study present-day societies in non-Western
settings, such as in Africa, South America, or Australia.
Linguistics Anthropologists - Answers -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 - Answers -the study of humans at all times in all places, the study of
humankind.
Physical Anthropology/biological - Answers -study all aspects of present and past
human biology.
Culture - Answers -Learned behavior that is transmitted from person to person.
Science - Answers -a way of doing something to gain knowledge based on observation
and experiments
Critical Thinking - Answers -observe things as they actually are without falsifying or
prejudging
Scientific Method - Answers -Observation Hypothesis Experiment Results Theory
The Childbed Fever - Answers -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 - Answers -The study of human language in the past and
present.
4 subfields of anthropology - Answers -archaeology, biological, cultural, linguistic
James Hutton (1726-1797) - Answers -father of geology, the theory of earth formation.
Thought earth was much older than the bible and natural forces formed earth
characteristics. This was called Uniformitarianism.
allele - Answers -Different forms of a gene
chromosomes - Answers -threadlike structures made of DNA molecules that contain the
genes
Uniformitarianism - Answers -wind and rain created erosion, which provided the raw
materials—sand, rock, and soil—for the formation of new land surfaces. Over time,
these surfaces became stacked one on top of the other, forming layers, or strata, of
geologic deposits From the (very long) time it took for these strata to build up, he
calculated Earth's age in the millions of years.
Charles Lyell (1797-1875) - Answers -started stratigraphy: the study of the earth rocks
and soil layers or (Strada). Came up with the idea of deep time the further you dig down
the further in time you go. based on examinations of geologic strata, confirmed Hutton's
estimate of Earth's very old age.
Stratigraphy - Answers -the study of the earth rocks and soil layers or (Strada).
Fossils - Answers -mineralized remains of past organisms
George Cuvier (1769-1832) - Answers -Believed in Catastrophism: stated that
cataclysmic events are responsible for geologic changes throughout earth history.
Catastrophism - Answers -after each catastrophe, the region was vacant of all life and
was subsequently repopulated by a different group of animals moving into it from
elsewhere
Taxonomy - Answers -Science of naming and classifying organisms usually based on
physical similarities.
Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) - Answers -Started Taxonomy: a classification system
Specie - Answers -A group of related organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile,
viable offspring
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