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1
Which of the following is a biological category?
A)race
B)gender
C)sex
D)religion
2
Which of the following statements tends to be true in general?
A)Males are more susceptible to disease than females.
B)Males hit puberty earlier than females.
C)Males recover more quickly from diseases than females.
D)Males are less likely to have vision problems than females.
3
Gender is
A)a geographic continuum in the variation of a particular trait.
B)a biological category of a male or female.
C)the cultural categories and characteristics of men and women.
D)based on genetics.
4
An estimated _____ percent of humans are intersexes, born with characteristics of both sexes.
A)2
B)4
C)6
D)8
5
Which of the following terms designates a third gender category recognized by the culture of Hindu India?
A)berdache
B)hijras
C)Rangifer tarandus
D)cline
6
Populations of a species that are completely isolated from one another but have not yet become truly different species are
A)subspecies.
B)semispecies.
C)haplotypes.
D)polytypic.
7
Around _____ percent of genetic variation exists between major population groups.
A)5
B)10
C)15
D)20
8
Culturally defined categories are considered
A)Behavior taxonomies
B)biological taxonomies
C)cultural taxonomies
D)folk taxonomies
9
A combination of linked single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) along a chromosome or stretch of DNA is a(n)
A)cline.
B)polytype.
C)haplotype.
D)archetype.
10
Skin color can best be described by biology as being distributed by
A)haplotypes.
B)clines.
C)races.
D)cultures.
11
Racial categories
A)are the same in all cultures.
B)have a solid biological basis.
C)no longer have meaning within our cultural system.
D)are folk taxonomies.
12
Restricting marriage to members of the same culturally defined group is called
A)exogamy.
B)monogamy.
C)endogamy.
D)polygamy.
13
Translating a complex set of phenomena into a single entity such as a number is
A)heritability.
B)reification.
C)racism.
D)a cline.
14
The relationship between race and IQ is
A)mostly the result of genetic differences.
B)inherited.
C)based on cultural categories and factors.
D)fixed in different racial populations.





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