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Mock Exam 1
ANTH 1 Prof: Dr. Gibson
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DISCLAIMER this mock exam is in no way an exact interpretation of the exam but rather a
way to practice your understanding of the concepts that might appear on the exam. You may
work in groups or alone to complete the mock exam.
1. In your own words, what is Anthropology?
2. An allele is:
a.
b.
c.
d.
another word for a gene
a homozygous genotype
a heterozygous genotype
one of several possible forms of a gene
3. When the genotype consists of a dominant and a recessive allele, the
phenotype will be produced by _________________ allele.
a. the dominant
b. the recessive
c. neither
4. The idea that different pairs of alleles are passed to offspring independently
is Mendel's principle of:
a. unit inheritance
b. segregation
c. independent assortment
5. If two parents are heterozygous for a genetically inherited dominant trait,
what is the probability that they will have a child together who has this trait
in his or her phenotype?
a.
b.
c.
d.
25%
50%
75%
100%
6. Phenotype refers to the ______________________ of an individual.
a. genetic makeup of an allele
b. actual physical appearance of an allele
c. recessive alleles
7. Which of the following statements is true about meiosis in humans?
a. Sperm and ova are not identical to the parent cells that produced them.
b. Females produce far more gametes than do males.
c. The process begins in males and females at puberty.
8. Human gametes normally have _____ chromosomes.
a. 23
b. 46
c. 48
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9. Which of the following statements is true about DNA replication?
a. One DNA molecule becomes two identical ones as a result of this process.
b. It occurs during meiosis but not mitosis.
c. It is part of the protein synthesis process.
10. If natural selection is against all alleles (AA, Aa, and aa) for a particular
trait and it always causes death in early childhood, the result for the
population will be:
a. gradual but steady decrease in the recessive allele (a)
b. elimination of the recessive allele (a) in one generation, but no effect on the
dominant allele (A)
c. extinction in one generation
d. extinction in several generations
11. If natural selection causes both homozygotes (AA and aa) for a trait to die
in early childhood, the result for the population will be:
a.
b.
c.
d.
extinction
elimination of the recessive allele in one generation
only heterozygous individuals will survive to reproduce
due to the high availability of modern medicine in all parts of the world
prolonging the life span of homozygous individuals.
12. Some people have AB blood types for the ABO blood system. They have all
of the characteristics of both type A and type B blood--they are not a blend
of them. The inheritance pattern responsible for this is referred to as:
a. codominance
b. dominance
c. blending
13. Your genetic material is known as
a.
b.
c.
d.
phenotypes.
genotypes.
karyotypes.
haplotypes.
14. Circle the 5 main fields of Anthropology.
Genetic
Paleoanthropology
Socio-Cultural
Medical
Linguistic
Applied
Primatology
Holistic
Archeology
Biological
Match the term with the right description
15. Scientific
a. Hypothesis supported through testing. Falsifiable
Method
16. Natural
b. Verifiable truths
Selection
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17. Facts
18. Theory
19. Hypothesis
20. Holistic
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c. Describes the diversity of approaches in
anthropology to study the human kind.
d. Permanent change occurring in a species over
generations
e. Has to do w/ variation in traits within a species & force
that change it by acting on this variation
f. Idea in the form of an explanation. Testable
g. Meant to evaluate independent ideas. Distinguishes
scientific from non-scientific ideas.
21. Evolution
22. Identify the potential Genotypes and Phenotypes of the children of AA and
Aa parents assuming A is the allele for yellow hair and a is the allele for
blue hair. Use a Punnet Square to get your answers.
23. What is the function of the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium model?
24. Name the four potential effects of mutations on an organism.
25. What is the root of cancer? (Think about the cells)
26. Define gene flow
27. Which scientist formulated the first theory of evolution by proposing the
idea of acquired traits; meaning that an organism can pass on traits it
acquired in its lifetime.
a. Darwin
b. Lemarck
c. Lyell
d. Snoop
28. What is the end result of mitosis?
29. Give an example of a secondary sexual characteristic.
30. Why is it better for a younger woman to have children versus an older
woman?
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31. The old idea that parents’ germ plasm was just mixed together in equal
measure when they have a child was called what?
32. What is the gamete production in a woman called?
33. When in her lifetime are a woman’s fertility follicles created?
34. What happens during the process of genetic recombination?
35. What does it mean if a population is found to be in disequilibrium?
36. A scientific theory is nothing more than a guess. True or False?
37. Darwin believed that what was the primary cause of evolution?
38. What is applied anthropology?
39. What are the three forms of evolution?
40. The quality of alleles whereby they are passed from generation to
generation, and can keep their potential for expression while not always
appearing in a descending generation. What is this called?
41. When a variation in a species has no obvious groups, just a gradual range,
it is said to be what?
42. How did the theory of acquired characteristics explain evolution?
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43. Which characteristics specific to the pea plants, and the way Mendel set up
his experiment, enabled his experiments to succeed?
44. Why is Mendel's contribution to genetics called a particulate theory?
45. What do the elements p, q, 2pq in the hardy-weinberg equilibrium model
stand for?
46. What are the factors behind genetic drift?
47. What is the usual long term effect of gene flow on variation?
48. A continuous trait is being distributed on a bell curve where would we find
most of the variation?
49. If the expected and observed genotypes match, a population is in what? If
they are different by .01 or more the population is in what?
50. What is relative fitness?
51. What does it mean when we say that evolution has a mosaic character?
52. What is speciation and which force of evolution is it involved with?
53. What do the words powerful and elegant mean when talking about the
scientific method?
54. How are the 4 fields of Anthropology interrelated?....can this be tied to
Holism?
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