What is a phoneme?

What will be an ideal response?


The smallest unit of sound that speakers unconsciously recognize as distinctive from other sounds; when one phoneme is substituted for another in a morpheme, the meaning of the morpheme changes.

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Morphological features are never used today to study gene flow between human populations

a. True b. False

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When we correct for body size, the hominin brain __________ after 2 million years.

A) decreased both absolutely and relatively B) increased absolutely but not relatively C) decreased absolutely but not relatively D) increased both absolutely and relatively

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Alleles are

a. segments of tRNA that code for polypeptide chains. b. only present on X and Y chromosomes. c. the entire genetic makeup of an individual. d. alternative forms of a gene. e. proteins.

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Health care systems refers only to the nationalized health care services that exist in core industrial nations.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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