Reference no: EM133368131
Assignment:
Answer the following questions:
1. Define the discipline of anthropology
2. Characterize the goals, methods and subfields of Biological (Physical Anthropology)
3. Explain the value, process and stages of the scientific method
4. Articulate the difference between a scientific theory and a hypothesis, and give examples of each
5. Recognize that cells are the basic building blocks of biological life.
6. Name the parts of a eukaryotic cell, and identify their primary functions: cell membrane, nucleus, organelle, mitochondria.
7. Describe the basic function and structure of DNA, including the principle of complementary base pairs (A-T, C-G)
8. Explain the process of DNA replication, and compare/contrast mitosis and meiosis, and the role of meiosis in evolution.
9. Describe how the genetic information found in DNA is organized into chromosomes (and name the number of each kind in the human body)
10. Explain how sex is determined in humans (mammals) at a chromosomal level.
11. Identify, define & apply the following concepts:
- cell
- prokaryote
- eukaryote
- nucleus
- DNA
- nitrogen base pairs: adenine+thymine; guanine+cytosine
- organelle
- mitochondria
- chromosome
- autosome
- sex chromosome (X and Y)
- homologous pair of chromosomes
- gene
- allele
- karyotype
- somatic cell vs. gamete
- mitosis vs. meiosis
- crossing over and genetic recombination
|
Summarize the article-where do we go after ferguson
: Summarize the article, "Where Do We Go After Ferguson?", by Michael Eric Dyson and identify one quote that most impressed you from the essay.
|
|
Describe the ecological niche of early primates
: Describe the ecological niche of early primates (this is niche of our distant ancestors!). That is, where did early primates live-how did they make a living?
|
|
How can we use holism to understand global capitalism
: What are Ethnographic fieldwork, Participant Observation, and where can fieldwork take place? What are Ethnography, Positivism, and Informants?
|
|
What is productionism
: How it relates to soil, and how it expresses what the author refers to as a mode of temporality she calls "technoscientific futurity".
|
|
Define the discipline of anthropology
: Define the discipline of anthropology. Characterize the goals, methods and subfields of Biological (Physical Anthropology).
|
|
How art and craft function to maintain memory
: How art and craft function to maintain memory (cultural or familial connections and continuity) by preserving the past and speaking to the future.
|
|
Pros and cons of two very different subsistence strategies
: Pros and cons of two very different subsistence strategies - hunting & gathering, and farming. By "pros", she means anything positive - when it would be good.
|
|
Why did mehmed ii want to make constantinople his capital
: What were the obstacles he faced? Where were the major centers of Ottoman power before he conquered Constantinople from the Byzantines in 1453?
|
|
What were effects of expansion on roman cultural identity
: How did Rome expand its power beyond Italy during the period from 264 BCE-14 CE and what were the effects of this expansion on Roman cultural identity?
|