With regard to the 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial," which of the following is NOT true?
A. One year after the trial, the verdict was overturned.
B. One year after the trial, the law against teaching evolution was removed from Tennessee law books.
C. The trial ended with Scopes being convicted of breaking the law.
D. Scopes was fined $100.
Answer: B
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A) sex B) age C) skin color D) stature
Generations of scientists have debated whether the Neandertals were ancestral to modern Europeans. The current prevailing view, which denies that ancestry, proposes that
A. Neandertals died out because they retained too many australopith characteristics that were poorly adapted to northern latitudes. B. Neandertals migrated eastward through Siberia and into the Americas until they died out. C. H. erectus killed off the Neandertals even prior to the emergence of anatomically modern humans. D. H. erectus split into separate groups, one ancestral to the Neandertals, the other ancestral to anatomically modern humans, who first reached Europe around 100,000 B.P.—long before Neandertals. E. modern humans evolved in Africa and eventually colonized Europe, displacing the Neandertals there.
Which of the following statements is correct?
a. There is no such thing as a cultural universal. b. There are cultural universals, but there is no single explanation about how they developed. c. Anthropologists believe that cultural universals exist because at one time there was a single human culture. d. Periodically cultural universals occur, especially at points of evolution. e. Human evolution could not occur without cultural universals.
Each amino acid is determined by specific three-base units called:
A. ribosomes B. nucleotides C. proteins D. codons