ANTH 2301
Midterm Exam Review Sheet
The exam format will include short answers, identification questions, short essays, and at least
one "genetics problem". It will cover Chapters 1-5 all handouts, and lectures. Topics included
here are important and a good place to start but this is not an exhaustive list of things that might
appear on the test.
Be able to define/identify and/or explain the significance of the following:
Terms
Anthropology
Archaeology
Cultural Anthropology
Variation
Theory
Hypothesis
Speculation
Great Chain of Being
Uniformitarianism
Intelligent Design
Macroevolution
Microevolution
Feature
DNA
Bases
Chromosome
intron
exon
gene
deme
allele
trait
Genotype
Phenotype
Dominant
Recessive
Homozygous
Heterozygous
Mutation
Monosomy
Fitness
Aneuploidy
Polyploidy
Meiotic non-disjunction
Single base error
Punctuated equilibrium
Pleiotropy
Directional selection
Balancing selection
Stabilizing selection
Gene flow
Genetic drift
Founder effect
Cladogenesis
Speciation
Ecological Niche
Trisomy
Ussher, James
Mitosis
Meiosis
Reproductive Isolation
Punctuated
Equilibrium
Homoplasy
Homology
Primates
Chordata
Bilateral symmetry
Homeotherm
Cladistics
Concepts
Pre-Darwinian concepts of
Evolution
Lamarckian evolution
Natural Selection
Evolutionary Forces
Science and Religion
Mendelian genetics
Hardy Weinberg
DNA replication
Protein Synthesis
Parallel vs Convergent
evolution
ANTH 2301
Midterm Exam Review Sheet
Genetics problems:
1) Imagine there is a locus with two alleles, H and h, where H is dominant and is the
“hairy nose” allele. If a man with genotype HH mates with a woman with
genotype hh, the proportion of offspring expected to have the “hairy nose”
phenotype is…
2) The ABO blood group has three alleles (A, B, O). If a woman with genotype AO
mates with a man with genotype BB, the expected proportion of heterozygotes
among their offspring is…
3) There is a blood-type related gene known as MN, which provide certain
antibodies. There are two alleles for this gene which are co-dominant: M and N.
Consider a population that has 50 people with genotype MM, 100 people with
genotype MN, and 50 people with genotype NN. What are the genotype
frequencies of this population?
4) The MN blood group has two co-dominant alleles. How can a woman with type
M blood have a child with type N blood?
5) In terms of the MN blood group, assume a population that has 49 people with
genotype MM, 42 people with genotype MN, and 9 people with genotype NN.
What is the frequency of the M allele in this population?
6) Imagine a locus with two alleles – A and a. Assume a population that has 25
people with genotype AA, 50 people with genotype Aa, and 25 people with
genotype aa. How many M alleles are in the population?
7) Imagine a locus with two alleles, F and G. If the frequency of the F allele is 0.6,
then the frequency of the G allele must be…
8) Assume two alleles, A and B, at a given locus. If the frequency of the A allele is
0.6 and the frequency of the a allele is 0.4, the expected genotype frequencies
are: