What is meant by the social construction of race? How does this concept differ from race as perceived by the average middle-class American?

What will be an ideal response?


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All of the following are examples of cultural practices acting as an agent for biological selection except:

a. people diagnosed with diabetes taking a medicine prescribed by physicians become as biologically fit as anyone else b. people of low financial status who are unable to purchase medication prescribed by physicians affecting biological fitness c. an inherited trait that affects biological fitness d. greater lactose tolerance in populations contributing significantly to diet

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The masseter, temporalis, medial and lateral pterygoid muscles are as a group called the muscles of mastication

a. true b. false

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Which of the following is not inherited in a Mendelian fashion?

a. ?Huntington Disease b. Cleft chin c. Skin color d. ?Tay-Sachs disease e. Albinism

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If the equilibrium price for a half gallon of organic milk is $4 and the current price for a half gallon of milk is $5.25, all of the following are true except which one?

A) Market forces will cause the current price to fall. B) The quantity supplied exceeds the quantity demanded. C) There is a surplus in the market. D) There is a shortage in the market.

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