Author Question: Of the following statements about attempts to assign humans to discrete racial categories, ... (Read 93 times)

imanialler · **on:** Aug 11, 2018

Of the following statements about attempts to assign humans to discrete racial categories, purportedly based on common ancestry, which is true?

A. They are applied to endogamous breeding populations.
B. They are based on genotypic rather than phenotypic characteristics.
C. They are based on global racial categories that vary little from one society to another.
D. They are a recent phenomenon brought on by globalization.
E. They are culturally arbitrary, even though most people assume they are based in biology.

Question 2

In theory, a biological race is a geographically isolated subdivision of a species. Humanity (Homo sapiens) lacks such races because

A. although humans exhibit biological differences, these are only skin deep.
B. human populations have experienced a type of controlled breeding distinct from that of dogs and roses.
C. human populations have not been isolated enough from one another to develop such discrete groups.
D. they are politically incorrect.
E. humans are less genetically predictable than animals and plants susceptible to domestication.