A religious ceremony that symbolically transforms the individual from a child into an adult is called a(n):
a. naming rite.
b. initiation rite.
c. passage rite.
d. transmutation rite.
B
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Dihybrid cross experiments were essential to __________
a. Mendel's Law of Segregation b. Mendel's Law of Independent Assortment c. discovering the particulate nature of inheritance in general d. discovering the nature of dominant and recessive alleles
Directional selection works to reduce genetic variation by removing maladaptive traits from the gene pool
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
With unilineal descent, sex with cross cousins is proper, but sex with parallel cousins is considered incestuous. Why?
A. Cross cousins are considered closer relatives than all other kin. B. This behavior is a human universal explained by Freud's theory of attempt and contempt. C. Societies with unilineal descent share a gene that impedes them from developing sexual urges for parallel cousins. D. Cross cousins are actually parallel cousins. E. Parallel cousins are considered closer relatives than cross cousins.
Food producers who specialize in animal husbandry, and who consider their way of life to be ideal and central to defining their identities, are called:
a. food foragers. b. horticulturalists. c. agriculturalists. d. pastoralists. e. industrialists.