What is a genetic bottleneck and how is it caused?

What will be an ideal response?


?It refers to the loss of genetic diversity within a species caused by a decline in numbers and
constrained breeding.

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Ethnomedicine refers to __________

A) the study of cross-cultural health systems B) the globalization of Western biomedicine C) the universal use of medicines to treat illness D) ways of curing disease rather than preventing it

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Most anthropologists today are cultural ecologists

a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Tuberculosis progressively destroys bone tissue

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Which statement about religion in the United States is true?

a. About 10 percent of the population claims active church membership. b. People in the U.S. are less religiously active than Italians and Frenchmen. c. Religion is more important to liberals and Democrats than to conservatives and Republicans. d. Large numbers of Americans know little about religion, even their own. e. Asians are the subgroup for whom religion is most important.

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