Anth 110.001 EXAM I STUDY GUIDE
Stanford Chapters 1-6
Lecture Notes 1/6 through 1/28
“Boxes” from the text (Stanford) that you should be familiar with:
Box 2.1 (pg. 25) Darwin versus Wallace? , pg. 34 DNA Barcoding, Box 5.1 (pg.93) What’s in a
Name? Species Concepts, Genetics, and Conservation, Box 6.1 (pg. 126) Technology and
Extreme Environments
Videos: What Darwin Never Knew (at www.pbs.org, go to Chapter 7-14); TBA
Know the following terms:
Anthropology Biological
Anthropology
Archaeology
Cultural Anthropology
Linguistics
Standard Scientific Method
Paradigm
Theory
Evolution
Natural selection
Taxonomy
Binomial classification
Uniformitarianism
Deep Time
adaptive radiation
differential reproduction
fitness
adaptation
cell
somatic cells and gametes
mitochondria DNA
DNA and DNA replication
Nucleotide
protiens
Genes
Allele
chromosome
mitosis
meiosis
Mutation
Genotype
Phenotype
Homozygous
Heterozygous
Dominant
Recessive
law of segregation
law of independent
assortment
qualitative variation
quantitative variation
polygenic traits
population
microevolution
macroevolution
Gene flow
Genetic drift
Founder effect
Bottleneck effect
Directional selection
Stabilizing selection
Hardy-Weinburg Equilibrium
Speciation
Species
Anagenesis
Cladogenesis
Allowpatric speciation
Parapatric speciation
Gradualism
punctuated equilibrium
Acclimitization
Adaptability
Cline
Lactose tolerance
Sickle-cell anemia
hypoxia
Know the following people:
Charles Darwin
J. Cuvier
Charles Lyell
Alfred Russel Wallace
Jean-Baptiste Lamark
Gregor Mendel
Watson and Crick
Know the following questions (provide examples from class material where appropriate):
1. What are the four subfields of Anthropology?
2. What were the major Medieval Paradigms before the development of evolutionary theory in
the 1700s and 1800s?
3. Explain the process of natural selection (there are 5 points).
4. Describe how DNA replicates and the connection between DNA and proteins.
5. What is the connection between meiosis, chromosomes, and DNA?
6. Explain the requirements of evolution.
7. What is the difference between microevolution and macroevolution? Provide an example.
8. How do gene flow and genetic drift affect populations and lead to evolutionary change?
Provide examples.
9. Describe how the Hardy-Weinburg equalibrium model is used to study allele frequencies and
evolution.
10. Discuss sickle-cell anemia. What is it and why is it in human populations, where can it be
found today and why?
11. What is the difference between Bergmannn’s Rule and Allen’s Rule. Explain how these rules
relate to variation in human populations.
12. What are advantages and disadvantages of light and dark skin? How does these relate to
human variation?
13. Is “race” a useful term? Explain why or why not and provide examples.