1.     The subfield of anthropology concerned with the study of variation in human culture of living or recently living groups of people is

a. archaeology.
b. physical anthropology.
c. applied anthropology.
d. cultural anthropology.
e. linguistic anthropology.

2.    The biocultural approach

a. involves comparing different human populations in order to identify common patterns of behavior.
b. considers the interaction of biology and culture in past and present human populations.
c. looks at how culture affects the human skeleton.
d. considers how humans successfully interact with the environment.
e. Both c and d are correct.

(a is comparative approach, c is too narrow a definition, d is adaptation)
 

a. all species on earth today were created at one time during one creation event.
b. no new life forms developed since creation.
c. fossils of extinct life forms represent organisms that did not survive the Biblical flood.
d. the earth is millions of years old.
e. humans are the most complex and most important life form on earth.

(thousands instead of millions)

4.    Charles Darwin's theory of descent with modification through natural selection

a. attempted to explain how new species arise.
b. assumed that life was created originally by a supernatural being.
c. assumed that there was one or few life forms in the beginning.
d. argued that the environment determines what traits aid in survival and allow certain individuals to compete successfully and pass those traits to their offspring.
e. All of these are correct.

5.    Which of the following statements about genetics and inheritance is true?

a. DNA is called the genetic code because it carries instructions for assembling RNA, the building block of life.
b. An amino acid is a chain of bonded proteins.
c. Simple traits are those that are controlled by one gene.
d. Humans have 48 chromosomes.
e. Recessive alleles are always expressed phenotypically.

(a should read "protein" not "RNA", b is switched, d should be 46, e is true only if an individual has two recessive alleles)

6.    True or False:  Anthropology can correctly be considered either a social science or a natural science.
 

7.    True or False:  The three traditional areas of emphasis in physical anthropology are demography, primatology, and forensic anthropology [primatology, paleoanthropology, and modern human biological variation].
 

8.    True or False:  The four forces of evolution, according to modern evolutionary theory, are gene flow, gene drift, mutation, and artificial [natural] selection.
 

9.    True or False:  Lamarck suggested that physical traits acquired by parents due to need, want, or use can be passed to offspring.
 

10.    True or False:  Gene drift [flow] is the introduction of new genetic material into one population from another population.
 

11.    Anthropology  is the scientific, holistic study of human cultural and biological variation.
 

12.    The idea of catastrophism as it relates to changes in life over time was described by Cuvier  .
 

13.    Mutations  are accidental, random changes in the genetic make-up of an individual.
 

14.    Chromosomes are divided into genes , or segments that control the genetic code for one trait.
 

15.    An individual with one dominant allele and one recessive allele for a trait is describe as heterozygous  .