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1
According to "Charles Darwin Was Born into a World That Today's Scientists Wouldn't Recognize," Darwin's main contribution to science was in his work on the theory of:
A)psychology.
B)evolution.
C)uniformitarianism.
D)thermodynamics.
2
As stated in "Charles Darwin Was Born into a World That Today's Scientists Wouldn't Recognize," Darwin initially planned to study medicine, but, not being able to stand the sight of blood, he then went to Cambridge to prepare for a career as a:
A)barrister.
B)writer.
C)mathematician.
D)clergyman.
3
As reported in "Charles Darwin Was Born into a World That Today's Scientists Wouldn't Recognize," Darwin's work eventually led to his being appointed to a teaching and research position at Cambridge University.
A)True
B)False
4
As discussed in "Was Darwin Wrong?", the main difference between evolutionary theory and the other theories mentioned in the article is that evolutionary theory is:
A)based on so many other branches of science.
B)unacceptable to a large proportion of people.
C)largely unproven.
D)attributed to the work of one scientist instead of many.
5
As defined in "Was Darwin Wrong?", Darwin called the phenomenon of species splitting and specializing the principle of:
A)speciation.
B)divergence.
C)evolution.
D)creation.
6
As noted in "Was Darwin Wrong?", evolutionary theory is rejected not only by fundamentalist Christians, but also by ultraorthodox Jews, Islamic creationists, and some Hare Krishnas.
A)True
B)False
7
As given in "The Facts of Evolution," the debate about evolution has become a fight between science and:
A)history.
B)economics.
C)religion.
D)metaphysics.
8
As presented in "The Facts of Evolution," Ernst Mayr's general tenets of evolutionary theory include all of the following except:
A)descent with modification.
B)fossil gaps.
C)natural selection.
D)gradualism.
9
As noted in "The Facts of Evolution," evolution is a historical science, and historical data—fossils—are often the evidence most cited for and against it.
A)True
B)False
10
As set forth in "Evolution in Action," the species that are demonstrating observable evolution include all of the following
A)grayling.
B)sticklebacks.
C)monkeys.
D)flies.
11
As reported in "Evolution in Action," when evolutionary biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant observed Galapagos finches, they noted that:
A)finches evolved only when weather conditions remained stable.
B)evolutionary changes among finches were occurring so slowly they were barely perceptible.
C)the finches were evolving rapidly.
D)finches evolved only where there were large numbers of predators.
12
According to "Evolution in Action," in the decades after Darwin's death, dozens of scientists were fascinated with the concept of evolution and attempted to witness it in action.
A)True
B)False
13
Among evolutionists, as given in "How the Dog Got Its Curly Tail," the term "ultimate explanations" is used for explanations based on:
A)theology.
B)materialism.
C)natural selection.
D)the work of Trofim Lysenko.
14
As noted in "How the Dog Got Its Curly Tail," Russian geneticist Dmitry Belyaev selected foxes for his program on the basis of their:
A)size.
B)tameness.
C)agility.
D)dark color.
15
Within the beetle genus studied by American Doug Elman, as pointed out in "How the Dog Got Its Curly Tail," small males do not have horns.
A)True
B)False
16
As profiled in "The Latest Face of Creationism," Arthur Landy, a professor of molecular and cell biology and biochemistry at Brown University, argued against an anti-evolution bill awaiting signature by his former student, the governor of:
A)Connecticut.
B)Louisiana.
C)Rhode Island.
D)Texas.
17
As pointed out in "The Latest Face of Creationism," the Supreme Court has rejected a number of policies that require the teaching of creationism in science classes because it violates the constitutional:
A)Free Speech Amendment.
B)division of federal and states' rights.
C)amendment regarding eminent domain.
D)Establishment Clause.
18
According to "The Latest Face of Creationism," creationists criticize evolution on the assumption that the only alternative to that view is creationism.
A)True
B)False
19
As suggested in "Why Should Students Learn Evolution?" unless one appreciates the perennial struggle among individuals and populations for survival in a particular ecological niche:
A)rules for engaging socially cannot be constructed.
B)one cannot understand the living world of which humans are a part.
C)economics would have no meaning.
D)biology would be in its infancy scientifically.
20
As stated in "Why Should Students Learn Evolution?" if one took away the basic context of all biological sciences, all that would be left would be:
A)disparate facts without the thread that ties them all together.
B)hope and luck.
C)DNA and RNA.
D)research and supposition.
21
As indicated in "Why Should Students Learn Evolution?" evolutionary explanations answer key questions in the biological sciences, such as why organisms across species have so many striking similarities yet are tremendously diverse.
A)True
B)False
22
According to "The 2% Difference," the two percent difference between humans and chimps is shown in that:
A)humans have more genes related to olfaction.
B)chimps are more resistant to tuberculosis.
C)chimps have more genes involved in neural development.
D)chimps have more genes related to olfaction.
23
As suggested in "The 2% Difference," genetic changes arise through all of the following EXCEPT:
A)insertion.
B)mutation.
C)adaptation.
D)deletion.
24
As stated in "The 2% Difference," the differences between chimp and human genes boil down to a kind of "typographical error" whereby one nucleotide is swapped for another and alters the gene in which it sits.
A)True
B)False
25
As stated in "The Mind of the Chimpanzee," Jane Goodall maintains that chimpanzees:
A)are not as intelligent as was originally thought.
B)are slow at problem solving.
C)have individual personalities.
D)are poor subjects for primate studies.
26
When Jane Goodall began her studies, as discussed in her article "The Mind of the Chimpanzee," it was not acceptable to:
A)study chimpanzees in the wild.
B)talk about an animal's mind.
C)advocate using chimpanzees for medical research.
D)ignore personality characteristics when doing animal research.
27
According to "The Mind of the Chimpanzee," Lucy, having been raised by humans, was no longer purely chimp.
A)True
B)False
28
As claimed in "Got Culture?" the notion of culture most relevant to primatologists is one that is:
A)identical to that used by most other cultural theorists.
B)closely linked to a written language.
C)manifested in at least rudimentary technologies, such as the construction of simple machines.
D)broader than that normally used by cultural theorists.
29
As characterized as "Got Culture?" the most plausible explanation for differences among the chimpanzee tool industries in Africa is that they reflect:
A)genetic differences.
B)different ecological conditions.
C)different learned traditions.
D)differences in the human communities from whom these behaviors were learned.
30
As pointed out in "Got Culture?" human cultures, unlike those of other animals, must be technologically complex.
A)True
B)False
31
As noted in "Dim Forest, Bright Chimps," chimpanzees living in the forest differ from those on the savanna in how they:
A)hunt.
B)communicate.
C)fight with each other.
D)sleep.
32
Plant and animal remains indicative of dry, open environments, according to "Dim Forest, Bright Chimps," have been found at all early hominid excavation sites in all of the following countries EXCEPT:
A)Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast).
B)Tanzania.
C)South Africa.
D)Ethiopia.
33
Food sharing, as suggested in "Dim Forest, Bright Chimps," seems to be more general in savanna than in forest chimpanzees.
A)True
B)False
34
Laurie Santos, profiled in "Thinking Like a Monkey," and other experimental psychologists working on the island of Cayo Santiago study the monkeys':
A)sexual activities.
B)physical attributes and dexterity.
C)thinking processes.
D)dietary habits and longevity.
35
As presented in "Thinking Like a Monkey," the theory-of-mind experiment relies on the trait of rhesus monkeys to:
A)flee any perceived danger.
B)physically confront every rival.
C)live solitary lives.
D)steal food at every opportunity.
36
As characterized in "Thinking Like a Monkey," researcher Laurie Santos has found that the monkeys she has studied cannot understand the concept of false belief.
A)True
B)False
37
As pointed out in "Why Are Some Animals So Smart?" the criteria used in field work to demonstrate that a certain behavior has a cultural basis include all of the following EXCEPT that:
A)the behavior must vary geographically.
B)the behavior must be common where it is found.
C)the same behaviors must be found in widely spaced geographical areas.
D)researchers must be able to find geographic distributions of behavior that can be explained by culture and not by any other way.
38
According to "Why Are Some Animals So Smart?" most captive members of the orangutan species:
A)are incapable of learning to use tools.
B)are terrified of tools.
C)can learn to use tools.
D)naturally make tools in the same manner as their wild counterparts.
39
As suggested in "Why Are Some Animals So Smart?" the demands of society foster intelligence because the most intelligent beings would be the most successful at making self-protective choices.
A)True
B)False
40
As mentioned in "How Animals Do Business," classical economics views people as:
A)profit maximizers driven by pure selfishness.
B)doing unto others in every sense.
C)incapable of sharing wealth or knowledge.
D)ethereal in nature.
41
As maintained in "How Animals Do Business," animal behavioral economics lends support to the new theories by showing that:
A)animals have a far superior sense of society than humans.
B)humans know too little about primate life.
C)basic human economic tendencies are not limited to the human species.
D)Darwin was wrong.
42
As noted in "How Animals Do Business," animals and people occasionally help one another without any obvious benefits for the helper.
A)True
B)False
43
As analyzed in "A Telling Difference," communication is virtually universal among:
A)only special beings.
B)objective individuals on Earth.
C)the intellectually superior.
D)living things.
44
As pointed out in "A Telling Difference," one way of approaching the distinction between communication and language is to note that:
A)those who choose to communicate can and those who use language cannot.
B)communication is something humans and lots of other animals do, and language is the tool that people can use to do it.
C)age is a primary factor in the skillfulness of communication.
D)one can be taught, while the other is instinctive.
45
As related in "A Telling Difference," animals communicate without language for a variety of purposes.
A)True
B)False
46
Recent studies described in "What Are Friends For?" suggest that:
A)females are passive objects of male competition.
B)cooperation between genders is not uncommon among baboons.
C)male/female friendships are unusual in the wild.
D)males never provide child care.
47
The three subspecies of savanna baboon, according to "What Are Friends For?" include all of the following EXCEPT:
A)gray.
B)olive.
C)chacma.
D)yellow.
48
Male baboons, as claimed in "What Are Friends For?" are particularly solicitous guardians of their friends' youngest infants.
A)True
B)False
49
As explained in "Face-Offs of the Female Kind," aggressive encounters between groups of female blue monkeys are over:
A)mates.
B)territory.
C)water sources.
D)status.
50
As revealed in "Face-Offs of the Female Kind," the diet of the blue monkey consists mainly of:
A)roots, rodents, and wild grain.
B)remains of large animals killed by predators.
C)fruit, insects, and flowers.
D)birds, snakes, and lizards.
51
As noted in "Face-Offs of the Female Kind," the author's study focused mainly on why certain individual females in the group did the fighting.
A)True
B)False
52
As noted in "What's Love Got to Do With It?" a difference between bonobos and other primates is that:
A)females only demonstrate sexual behavior when they are fertile.
B)they have especially unrestrained sexual behavior.
C)they use sex only for purposes of reproduction.
D)they rarely have sexual contact with other members of the same gender.
53
In reconstructing how early man and woman behaved, according to "What's Love Got to Do With It?" researchers have generally looked to:
A)bonobos.
B)chimpanzees.
C)macaques.
D)gorillas.
54
Most of the time, as suggested in "What's Love Got to Do With It?" bonobo sex has nothing to do with making babies.
A)True
B)False
55
As explained in "Mothers and Others," cooperative breeding:
A)exists only in primitive societies.
B)has enabled humans to thrive in many new environments.
C)has no place in the modern world.
D)is practiced only by non-primate mammals.
56
As cited in "Mothers and Others," the critical variable in the NICHD study of children and their families was:
A)how secure infants felt when cared for by someone else.
B)the amount of time an infant spent apart from its mother.
C)whether or not the mother worked.
D)the role of the father or other males in an infant's life.
57
As stated in "Mothers and Others," cooperative breeding is restricted to humans.
A)True
B)False
58
According to "The Salamander's Tale," non-interbreeding is the recognized criterion for whether or not:
A)two populations deserve distinct species names.
B)overpopulated districts in rural areas should be thinned.
C)gender-neutral breeding is appropriate.
D)dinosaur excavation grounds should be considered zoologically valid.
59
As related in "The Salamander's Tale," one can recognize there is a recognizable hybridization of the salamanders in the Central Valley except:
A)in the western sectors.
B)near the eastern borders.
C)where the two ends of the line of the rim meet in the far south of California.
D)where large predators are prevalent.
60
As mentioned in "The Salamander's Tale," ring species like the salamanders are only demonstrating in the spatial dimension something that must always happen in the time dimension.
A)True
B)False
61
As described in "The Woman Who Shook Up Man's Family Tree," the first bone that the author found belonging to the fossil remains of "Lucy" was a/an:
A)clavicle.
B)occipital bone.
C)ulna.
D)mandible.
62
As related in "The Woman Who Shook Up Man's Family Tree," Lucy received her name as a reference to:
A)the grandmother of the man who found her.
B)the Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds."
C)Lucy from the comic strip Peanuts.
D)Lucille Ball of I Love Lucy.
63
As noted in "The Woman Who Shook Up Man's Family Tree," Lucy is estimated to be about 20 million years old.
A)True
B)False
64
As explained in "Hunting the First Hominid," from the molecular differences among the genes of humans and apes, geneticists:
A)estimate the time when each of the various ape and hominid lineages diverged from the common stem.
B)realized that the link between the two species was discredited.
C)adjusted to the fact that their Ice Age finds were clarified.
D)were able to resolve court cases involving the teaching of genetic science in schools.
65
As asserted in "Hunting the First Hominid," making a list of key features that differentiate people from apes is:
A)easy and not misleading.
B)misleading, but not difficult.
C)less accurate than we would like.
D)fruitless.
66
As pointed out in "Hunting the First Hominid," instrumentation plays a crucial role in the dating and analysis of fossil remains.
A)True
B)False
67
As maintained in "Made in Savannahstan," recent finds seem to indicate that the origins of Homo erectus may have been in:
A)Asia.
B)Europe.
C)North America.
D)Australia.
68
As detailed in "Made in Savannahstan," the traditional story of the development and migration of human ancestors is called:
A)Valley of the Kings.
B)Forest and River.
C)South to North.
D)Out of Africa.
69
As noted in "Made in Savannahstan," the tradition that Homo erectus left Africa to conquer new territory has a romantic appeal because it suggests that exploration and settlement are primordial and defining human instincts.
A)True
B)False
70
Conclusions reached in "Scavenger Hunt," about early hominids include that:
A)they were accomplished hunters.
B)their teeth indicate that they were scavengers.
C)their principal method of food preparation was butchering.
D)fossil remains cannot prove much about the eating habits of such animals.
71
The only pure scavengers alive in Africa today, according to "Scavenger Hunt," are:
A)spotted hyenas.
B)jackals.
C)vultures.
D)wild dogs.
72
Bipedalism, as suggested in "Scavenger Hunt," is compatible with a scavenging strategy.
A)True
B)False
73
According to "The Scavenging of "Peking Man"," new evidence from the cave at Longgushan:
A)reinforces the findings first made in the 1920s.
B)confirms that Peking man was cannibalistic.
C)gives a leading role to Homo sapiens at the site.
D)shows that its primary use was not as a home for early humans.
74
As given in "The Scavenging of "Peking Man"," Peking man lived as recently as:
A)300,000 years ago.
B)100,000 years ago.
C)60,000 years ago.
D)35,000 years ago.
75
It is still considered likely, as related in "The Scavenging of "Peking Man"," that the individuals whose remains were found at Zhoukoudian, China, practiced cannibalism.
A)True
B)False
76
According to "Hard Times Among the Neanderthals," research on fossils:
A)reveals the Neanderthals to have been excessively violent in their nature.
B)shows the Neanderthals to be less similar to modern humans than was previously imagined.
C)is a rare area of agreement among experts in human paleontology.
D)reveals a considerable amount about the way the Neanderthals lived.
77
The first recognized fossil remains, according to "Hard Times Among the Neanderthals," were discovered in 1856 in:
A)China.
B)Tanzania.
C)Germany.
D)Iraq.
78
As claimed in "Hard Times Among the Neanderthals," it is usually impossible to determine from fossilized remains the cause of an individual's death.
A)True
B)False
79
As recalled in "Rethinking Neanderthals," recent studies suggest that Neanderthals:
A)developed sophisticated societies among their unfriendly neighbors.
B)never really existed.
C)were imaginative enough to carve artful objects and invent a language.
D)migrated from Canada.
80
As claimed in "Rethinking Neanderthals," Neanderthals were as big-brained as:
A)the ancient Egyptians.
B)the anatomically modern humans that later colonized Europe.
C)Asian fossils found in lower Mongolia.
D)modern humans.
81
Neanderthal fossils suggest, as brought out in "Rethinking Neanderthals," that the Neanderthals must have endured a lot of pain.
A)True
B)False
82
As explained in "Last of the Neanderthals," the main question about the Neanderthals is:
A)whether they had language similar to that of modern humans.
B)why they became extinct.
C)how large of an area they inhabited.
D)whether they mated with the ancestors of modern humans.
83
According to "Last of the Neanderthals," the cooling period around the time the Neanderthals disappeared would have turned the climate in the Mediterranean area into something similar to modern-day:
A)Chile.
B)Alaska.
C)Greece.
D)Scandinavia.
84
As revealed in "Last of the Neanderthals," cut marks left on Neanderthal bones by stone tools indicate that the individuals were cannibalized.
A)True
B)False
85
As put forth in "The Great Human Migration," compelling evidence for the migration of modern humans from Africa to the rest of the world, rather than parallel development in different locations, was provided in the 1980s by:
A)cave paintings.
B)carbon dating.
C)mitochondrial DNA.
D)computerized analysis of hunting patterns.
86
As reported in "The Great Human Migration," the etched stone representing the oldest known example of an intricate design made by a human being were found in the Blombos Cave near the southern tip of:
A)Africa.
B)India.
C)Italy.
D)France.
87
As identified in "The Great Human Migration," the woman dubbed "Eve" by scientists was our oldest human ancestor.
A)True
B)False
88
As proposed in "The Littlest Human," Homo sapiens were supposed to have had the planet :
A)well-explored more than 10 millennia ago.
B)occupied in conjunction with the Neandertals.
C)alongside their animal counterparts.
D)to themselves for the past 25 millennia.
89
As shown in "The Littlest Human," although the recently discovered hominid is as small in body and brain as the earliest humans:
A)it appears to have made sophisticated stone tools, raising questions about the relation between brain size and intelligence.
B)there is virtually no connection between the two species.
C)their emotional capacities cannot be investigated satisfactorily.
D)their tools reflect their limited physical abilities.
90
As given in "The Littlest Human," the discovery of a dwarf hominid species indicates that under the right conditions, humans can in fact respond in the same predictable way that other large mammals do when physical existence becomes difficult.
A)True
B)False
91
As described in "The Gift of Gab," the talking skills of Homo sapiens:
A)are only slightly different from those of other mammals.
B)make them a uniquely successful, powerful, and dangerous mammal.
C)rely on instrumental meaning.
D)vary dramatically from culture to culture across corresponding time periods.
92
As stated in "The Gift of Gab," in people, the larynx:
A)lies well below the back of the tongue, and most of the air goes out through the mouth during speech.
B)lies below the back of the tongue, directing most of the air out through the nose.
C)sits high in the throat, allowing the tongue to form sounds easily.
D)is high in the throat, directing most the air out through the nose.
93
The author of "The Gift of Gab" believes that it can reasonably be assumed that humans were able to talk at least 30,000 years ago.
A)True
B)False
94
As reported in "The Birth of Childhood," recent studies by Harvard paleoanthropologist Tanya Smith indicate that for the first members of our species, Homo sapiens, some 200,000 years ago in Africa, childhood:
A)lasted only 4 or 5 years.
B)lasted longer than it does for modern humans.
C)had begun to extend compared with earlier species but was still much shorter than for modern humans.
D)was fully extended.
95
The 3-year-old orphan Mel, profiled in "The Birth of Childhood," was a/an:
A)early modern human.
B)chimpanzee.
C)Neanderthal.
D)elephant.
96
As noted in "The Birth of Childhood," slow-growing, large-bodied animals, such as rhinos, elephants, and chimpanzees, differ from humans in that they are threatened with extinction in part because they delay reproduction.
A)True
B)False
97
As reported in "The Brain," according to Darwin, facial expressions were:
A)different in different cultures.
B)reflexes.
C)learned behavior.
D)voluntary.
98
As stated in "The Brain," muscles in our faces acquired their basic form more than half a billion years ago, when muscles to suck in food were developed in early:
A)fish.
B)birds.
C)humans.
D)reptiles.
99
As revealed in "The Brain," researchers have found that a facial movement produces the same expression whether on the face of a chimpanzee or a human.
A)True
B)False
100
As mentioned in "Skin Deep," among primates only humans:
A)care about skin color.
B)never change hair color.
C)have mostly naked skin that comes in different colors.
D)consider grooming important.
101
As suggested in "Skin Deep," the ability of skin color to adapt over long periods to the various environments to which humans have moved reflects:
A)the importance of skin color to human survival.
B)racial harmony.
C)ethnic mobility and adaptability.
D)European genetic influence.
102
As reported in "Skin Deep," populations that live in the tropics receive enough ultraviolet light from the sun to synthesize vitamin D all year long.
A)True
B)False
103
According to "Born Gay?", two convincing studies have:
A)been criticized for ignoring homosexuality among women.
B)demonstrated that sexual orientation in men has no genetic cause.
C)proved conclusively that sexual orientation in men has a genetic cause.
D)found that homosexuality is inherited exclusively through the paternal line.
104
As presented in "Born Gay?", a study at the University of Toronto revealed that:
A)if a man has older sisters, his odds of being gay increase dramatically.
B)for every older brother a man has, his odds of being gay go up by one third.
C)the number and gender of siblings a man has does not affect his sexuality in any way.
D)nurture is the primary determinant of sexuality.
105
As noted by a neuroscience professor cited in "Born Gay?", scientists can cause animals to be as masculine or feminine as they want by manipulating their exposure to testosterone.
A)True
B)False
106
The misunderstanding that race is a biological fact, as put forth in "How Real Is Race? Using Anthropology to Make Sense of Human Diversity," is reinforced in education when teachers are taught that they should understand:
A)how issues of identity formation are made more difficult for students from mixed racial backgrounds.
B)the specific learning styles and behavior patterns of students of different races.
C)the teaching of evolution may be very difficult for some students to accept.
D)demographic trends based on race and social and economic positions.
107
The idea of race, as explained in "How Real Is Race? Using Anthropology to Make Sense of Human Diversity," emerged in Europe and coincided with:
A)new ideas of democracy and equality.
B)advances in science and technology.
C)the unification of the European nations.
D)colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade.
108
During the late nineteenth century, as presented in "How Real Is Race? Using Anthropology to Make Sense of Human Diversity," physical evolution was seen as moving at a distinctly slower pace than cultural evolution.
A)True
B)False
109
As described in "The Tall and the Short of It," plasticity refers to the ability of an organism to:
A)change its genetic destiny.
B)insulate itself from its environment.
C)manipulate its gene for growth.
D)adapt in response to changes in the environment.
110
As reported in "The Tall and the Short of It," studies on height reveal that:
A)adult height is determined solely by genes.
B)changing the growth patterns within groups takes centuries.
C)improving the diet and health of Maya refugees led to their having taller children.
D)the Tutsis are taller on average than most Americans.
111
As explained in "The Tall and the Short of It," low-birth-weight babies tend to continue slow growth throughout childhood.
A)True
B)False
112
As noted in "The Viral Superhighway," at the present time, infectious diseases:
A)no longer present serious health problems.
B)only threaten epidemics in remote areas.
C)are more easily treated than ever before.
D)are causing a new epidemiological transition.
113
According to "The Viral Superhighway," the catalyst for the first epidemiological transition was the:
A)shift toward victory over infectious diseases.
B)evolution of early hominids.
C)abandonment of nomadic existence of favor of agriculture.
D)the bubonic plague.
114
As noted in "The Viral Superhighway," widespread use of antibiotics has played a role in the emergence of E. coli variants.
A)True
B)False
115
As revealed in "The Perfect Plague," the highest known epidemic death toll in history was caused by:
A)bubonic plague in the 1340s.
B)typhus from 1501 to 1587.
C)cholera from 1852 to 1860.
D)influenza in 1918 and 1919.
116
As reported in "The Perfect Plague," the Ministry of Health in Venezuela looks for an early warning of a possible outbreak of yellow fever by monitoring:
A)representative blood samples from citizens.
B)immigrants to the country.
C)mosquito populations.
D)unusual numbers of dead wild monkeys.
117
As shown in "The Perfect Plague," the most notable source of disease in the tropics is mosquitoes.
A)True
B)False
118
As indicated in "The Inuit Paradox," no one, not even residents of the northernmost villages on Earth:
A)eats an entirely traditional northern diet anymore.
B)cares about proper nutrition.
C)listens to their cardiologists about nutrition.
D)emphasizes diet in his or her life plans.
119
As shown in "The Inuit Paradox," the Eskimo did well on:
A)low protein and low fat diets.
B)high protein and high fat diets.
C)minimal carbohydrates.
D)excessive carbohydrates.
120
As related in "The Inuit Paradox," the closer people live to towns and the more access they have to stores and cash-paying jobs, the more likely they are to have Westernized their eating.
A)True
B)False
121
As discussed in "Dr. Darwin," the goal of Darwinian medicine is to:
A)find cures for genetically transmitted diseases.
B)apply the theory of natural selection for better a understanding of disease.
C)find genetically based killers for unwanted microbes.
D)extend the average life span.
122
As reported in "Dr. Darwin," scientists are applying the theory of natural selection to the study of illnesses in an attempt to:
A)determine whether genetic manipulation can make humans immune to disease.
B)understand why humans are vulnerable to disease, why human bodies react as they do to illness, and to understand the microbes that cause disease.
C)engineer microbes that can thrive without endangering people.
D)accelerate the pace of human evolution to eliminate illness.
123
It is noted in "Dr. Darwin" that some symptoms of illness, such as diarrhea, may be either harmful or beneficial, depending on the disease a person has.
A)True
B)False
124
As described in "Curse and Blessing of the Ghetto," characteristics of Tay-Sachs disease include that it:
A)is easily treatable.
B)is programmed in the genes.
C)can be prevented.
D)only attacks female children.
125
The enzyme absent in Tay-Sachs children, according to "Curse and Blessing of the Ghetto," is coded for by a piece of:
A)microbe.
B)lysosome.
C)DNA.
D)protein.
126
To get Tay-Sachs, as claimed in "Curse and Blessing of the Ghetto," a child must inherit a defective gene from just one parent.
A)True
B)False
127
As presented in "Ironing It Out," hemochromatosis is:
A)a viral infection.
B)present only in men.
C)a hereditary disease.
D)usually noticed before puberty.
128
As outlined in "Ironing It Out," without enough iron, a person has all of the following symptoms except:
A)a poorly functioning immune system.
B)feeling confused and/or dizzy.
C)feeling extremely fatigued.
D)the skin appears tanned.
129
As given in "Ironing It Out," iron is both essential to human life and attractive to nearly every biological threat to human life.
A)True
B)False





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