Anthropology Questions and Answers - Set 1 | Anthropology Quiz GkSeries

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1 . Who among the following gave the concept of geographical, local and micro-races ?

1 R.D. Lewontin

2 S.M. Garn

3 E.A. Hooton

4 W.C. Boyd

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Answer:S.M. Garn

2 . Which one of the following Epochs is called the “Age of Apes” ?

1 Oligocene

2 Eocene

3 Pleistocene

4 Miocene

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Answer:Miocene

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3 Which bone is known as ‘shin bone’ ?

1 Femur

2 Tibia

3 Humerus

4 Ulna

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Answer:Tibia

4 One of the first to study brachydactyly was :

1 Francis Galton

2 William Bateson

3 W.C. Farabee

4 A.E. Garrod

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Answer:W.C. Farabee

5 “Goodness of fit” test is also known as :

1 t - test

2 ANOVA

3 Chi square test

4 Regression

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Answer: Chi square test

6 The maintenance of two or more alleles in a gene pool as a result of heterozygote advantage is :

1 Transient polymorphism

2 Genetic Equilibrium

3 Multiple allelism

4 Balanced polymorphism

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Answer: Balanced polymorphism

7 A deficiency disease relating to protein energy malnutrition characterized by growth failure, edema, irritability and pigment changes in the skin is known as :

1 Marasmus

2 Kwashiorkor

3 Rickets

4 Dermatitis

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Answer: Kwashiorkor

8 The totality of deleterious alleles in a population is known as :

1 Genetic load

2 Genetic loss

3 Genetic equilibrium

4 Genetic mortality

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Answer: Genetic load

9 Who are your cross-cousins ?

1 Your mother’s cousin’s children

2 The children of your mother’s sister or / and your father’s brother

3 Your father’s cousin’s children

4 The children of your father’s sister or / and mother’s brother

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Answer: The children of your father’s sister or / and mother’s brother

10 Who among the following is regarded as an ‘armchair anthropologist’ ?

1 Edmund Leach

2 James Frazer

3 Evans - Pritchard

4 B. Malinowski

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Answer:James Frazer

11 Which of the following Constitutional Safeguard (Article) is related with the economic development of the Scheduled Tribes ?

1 Article 339(1)

2 Article 275(1)

3 Article 29

4 Article 338

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Answer: Article 275(1)

12 Who has edited the book ‘Anthropology Today An Encyclopedic Inventory’ ?

1 Franz Boas

2 A.L. Kroeber

3 Edmund Leach

4 B. Malinowski

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Answer:A.L. Kroeber

13 Who first formulated the doctrine of ‘the psychic unity of mankind’ ?

1 L.H. Morgan

2 A.R. Desai

3 Kenneth Pike

4 Adolf Bastian

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Answer:Adolf Bastian

14 Who proposed the evolutionary scheme of religion as follows ? Animism → Ancestor worship → Polytheism → Monotheism

1 Franz Boas

2 E.B. Tylor

3 L.H. Morgan

4 R.R. Marrett

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Answer:E.B. Tylor

15 The concept that behaviour in a society should be evaluated in terms of the society’s own cultural values is known as :

1 Revivalism

2 Configurationism

3 Cultural relativism

4 Ethnocentrism

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Answer:Ethnocentrism

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