The use of DNA technology has increased and has taught humanity much about the nature of genetics. While popular due to media television shows, anthropologically, the use of DNA helps student understand the nature of
a. gender
b. language
c. culture
d. race
e. religion
ANS: D
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A) generalized reciprocity B) balanced reciprocity C) redistribution D) market exchange
Refer to the table below. Which of the following statements is true?
The demand for your product demands on three factors; the price of your good, the price of a related good, and the average income of your customers. Excel estimated the above linear demand for your product.
A) Decreases in consumer incomes lead to increases in the quantity demanded for your good.
B) The Law of Demand holds for your good.
C) Increases in the price of the related good lead to a decrease in the quantity demanded of your good.
D) Your good is an inferior good.
How does Leone explain the appearance and popularity of formal Georgian gardens in wealthy Annapolis homes during the mid 18th century?
a. The wildness and lack of order in the gardens represented the Georgian idea that humans could ultimately never triumph over nature, and that natural beauty would always surpass cultural attempts to beautify the natural world. b. The gardens expressed the Enlightenment idea of the power of reason over nature, and that nature controlled by culture was more desirable and attractive than nature alone. c. Georgian gardens, like any other stylistic choice, came into favor and went out of favor randomly; the gardens had nothing to do with the rest of Georgian culture. d. The gardens expressed the ideal of social and economic equality among all people which was popular at the time. e. The gardens were the work of slaves who brought the ideas of grandeur from their own cultural backgrounds.
Timothy Wright, in his study of Bolivian men found that:
a. ?homosexuality was socially acceptable and practiced by a wide number of men. b. ?even if men had sex with men they did not necessarily consider themselves to be homosexuals. c. HIV/AIDS was transmitted at a lower rate in Bolivia because of the traditions of the Roman Catholic Church. d. women and men practiced sexual fidelity and tended to have longer and more satisfying marriages than in Western societies.