It is difficult to classify humans into races because:   classifications based on different characters classify the same people into different groups     variation in one trait is usually discrete rather than clinally distributed     there are too many different races     anthropologists have only recently begun to tackle the problem of human variation

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Question 1

 

It is difficult to classify humans into races because:

 

classifications based on different characters classify the same people into different groups

 

 

variation in one trait is usually discrete rather than clinally distributed

 

 

there are too many different races

 

 

anthropologists have only recently begun to tackle the problem of human variation

 

Question 4

 

Most genetic variation exists

 

within groups

 

 

between races

 

 

none of these

 

 

between groups

 

 

Question 6

 

Traits are more likely to exhibit continuous variation when:

 

they are determined by alleles at multiple loci

 

 

there are no environmental influences

 

 

inheritance is blending rather than particulate

 

 

they are affected by alleles at only one locus

 


Question 9

 

 

These are all used to measure human genetic variation

 

STRs, SNPS, mtDNA

 

 

blood type, DNA, STRs

 

 

mtDNA, RSS, blood type

 

 

SNPS, RSS, mtDNA

 

 

Question 10

 

 

Which of these is not a problem with racial classification?

 

African populations have more diversity than any other population

 

 

most variation is found within groups

 

 

there are no sharp boundaries of human variation

 

 

every racial classification was different from the next

 

 

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Sociology is the study of individuals or groups in a social setting - the way social life, changes in society, and the cause and effect of society affect their behaviour. Within the purview of sociology, there are multiple fields like culture, politics, deviant behaviour and crime, education, social relationships, race, gender, etc.

Race is a social construct that categorizes humans into groups based on physical characteristics such as skin colour, hair texture, eye shape, and facial features. The concept of race has been used throughout history to categorize and discriminate against certain groups of people and has been used to justify inequalities based on skin colour and ethnicity.

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