Define Mendel's "law of independent assortment."

What will be an ideal response?


This law states that genes controlling different traits are inherited independently of one another.

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The anthropological attitude that a society’s customs and ideas should be viewed in the context of that society’s culture is called

a. ethnocentrism. b. cultural relativism. c. cultural constraint. d. cultural diffusion. e. cultural innovation.

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In societies where women earn wages, __________

A) women are still responsible for the bulk of the housework and child care B) they are paid a higher rate per hour than men C) men take on the majority of the child care and household responsibilities D) they spend more hours at work per week than men

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According to studies in the 1960s, why did young Etoro men and boys engage in homosexual relationships?

A. They did not understand biological reproduction, which is why they no longer exist. B. The status of Etoro women was the highest in the world, in a status above and beyond males. C. Genetic drift created a population dominated by a homosexual gene. D. They believed it necessary for boys to ingest semen in order to mature in a healthy way. E. A warrior cult of older adult men vigorously enforced a monopoly on access to women.

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Both religion and magic are systems of supernatural belief and are not susceptible to scientific verification

a. True b. False

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