Download Anthropology 1 Professor Debbie Klein Spring 2006 MIDTERM #1

Anthropology 1
Professor Debbie Klein
Spring 2006
MIDTERM #1 Study Guide
Exam Details: Your exam will consist of 40 multiple choice (1 point each) and 6 short answers (10
points each) for a total of 100 points. It will cover material from Park Chs. 1-6, lectures, homework
assignments, and 4 films (Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, Accidents of Creation, The Evolutionary Arms
Race, and Great Transformations).
Identify the following as succinctly as possible. Give an example where appropriate.
Charles Darwin
Magnambougou
Katherine Dettwyler
Kwashiorkor
Grande Marché
Moussa
Dogo
AMIPJ
Uniformitarianism
Stratigraphy
Evolution
Allele
Cell
Catastrophism
Adaptive Radiation
Comte Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Reproductive Isolating Mechanisms
Mutation
Charles Lyell
Natural Selection
Carolus Linnaeus
Essentialism
Genetic Drift
Jean Baptiste Lamarck
Tetrapod
Hawaiian Silver Sword
Nene
Culture Shock
Schistosomiasis
Bakary Traore
Kwashiorkor
Malaria
Scientific Method
Thomas Malthus
The Beagle
Alfred Wallace
Blending Inheritance
Garden Peas
Chromosomes
Genes
Gametes
Genotype
Phenotype
Law of Segregation
Intelligent Design
Species
Cholera
Burgess Shale
Prosimians
Brazilian leaf-cutter ant
The Grants’ finches
Sickle Cell Anemia
Georges Cuvier
Trisomy 21
DNA
Punctuated Equilibrium
Meiosis
Mitosis
Darwinian Gradualism
Speciation
Reverend John Ray
Darwin’s finches
Tetrapod
Scientific Creationism
Gregor Mendel
Gene Flow
Cambrian Explosion
Great Chain of Being
Sample Short Answers: Please answer the following as succinctly as possible. Be sure to answer
ALL parts of each question.
1. Why was the idea of Evolution so revolutionary in Western Europe in the 1800s?
2. What tentative explanation did the video, Accidents of Creation, give for the difference in
relative brain size between humans and chimpanzees?
3. Briefly describe the 5 major subfields within Anthropology.
4. Explain why "scientific" creationism is considered a pseudoscience. Do you agree?
5. Suppose 2 people who are both heterozygous for the taster trait produce offspring. What
are the possible genotypes and phenotypes of their offspring? In what proportions will they
be produced?
6. What important observations provided Darwin with clues in deriving his explanation for
biological evolution?
7. How did the activities of the "natural scientists" differ from those of their predecessors?
8. If natural selection is so good at maintaining and even improving a species' adaptation, why
then do species become extinct?
9. How do whales swim, and what does this tell us about whale evolution?
10. What happened when Walter Gehring replaced a fly’s gene for eyes (eyeless gene) with a
mouse gene for eyes? What does this suggest?
11. What is our relationship to modern chimpanzees?
12. Describe Darwin's mechanism for evolution by telling how it differed from Lamarck's.
13. A woman who is blood type B gives birth to a child who is type O. She has accused a type A
man of being the father. Is he? Explain your reasoning.
14. What is the significance of the relationship between the poisonous newt and the common
garter snake in Western Oregon?
15. If microbes may be important for our immune systems to deal with our environment, why do
humans do anything to kill microbes?
16. Are mass extinctions a thing of the past?
17. Can we see evolution in action? If so, give an example.
18. Are humans still evolving?
19. Define and give an example of each: therapeutic cloning, reproductive cloning.
20. Is evolution a fact, theory, or a hypothesis? Explain.
21. What role do greetings play in Bambara culture?
22. What attempts did Katherine Dettwyler make to help Daouda, the mentally challenged child?
Why did she eventually give up?
23. Why did Katherine Dettwyler collect urine and fecal samples? Why did she take the samples
to the Veterinary Laboratory for analysis?
24. Why was Moussa so ethnocentric about the rural people of his own country?
25. What did the Dogo chief mean by “children who never grow up”? What happens to them?