Georgia State University - CPS 3200

Exam 1

Topic 1 Practice Test Questions

1)Human cultural variations are inherited in the same way as biological variations.

 

 

2. As a country becomes more multicultural through immigrations, people may experience anxiety about the stability of

 

3. According to the most mainstream anthropologies, humans first emerged in _ about _ years ago

 

4. It has been projected that 50% of the world’s languages _

 

 

5. The fundamental working units of every living system are called _

 

6. Multiculturalism has been adopted as official policy in which nations?

 

 

7. DNA from different types of organisms is made up of millions of different chemical components

 

8. Like most evolutionary accounts of human nature, the importance of cultural diversity for human service is a hypothesis that _

 

9. The hot button issues of diversity often overshadow ones that are _ while also significant to our interactions and relationships with others

 

10. A, T, G and C letters represent

 

 

11. An appreciation of _ includes but is not limited to different cultures of origin

 

12. A key element in successfully addressing diversity in human relations is gaining a degree of comfort with

 

13. The culture of America, starting with the assimilation of early immigrants, has often been referred to as a

 

 

14. Cultural diversity is not easy to quantify and defining separate human populations is not precise. One approach that has been used for centuries is based on _

 

15. Introduced in US during the 1980s, _ is an ideology that seeks to preserve distinctly different cultural groups rather than a single, homogenous society

 

16. While the genomes of different organisms have different DNA, they have roughly the same number of base pairs

 

 

17. Critics of biological determinism argue that _ play a significant role in determining human behavior

 

 

18. A human genome, estimated to contain more than 20,000 genes is contained in

 

19. Which of the following is not a benefit of understanding diversity?

 

 

20. Genetic and social researchers working to better understand human diversity note that about 85% _

 

 

21 . Bases are the _ and they are repeated millions of times throughout a genome

 

 

22. Population growth, immigration and the imposition of cultural norms by one country on another are primary causes of the _

 

23. The basic premise of appreciation of diversity is

 

 

24. As the US was developing into a nation of significance…

 

 25. DNA bases and sequences differ from person to person…

 

26. The basic physical and functional unit of heredity is the