Essay Questions What is Anthropology? To receive full points for this question, you must: Define Anthropology • Identify and briefly describe the four subfields of Anthropology • Briefly describe the doctrine of holism as it appears in the Kottak Text Choose one example of research in a particular society from any assigned reading. Explain how this example uses a holistic approacth. • Indicate which subdisciplines of anthropology contributed to your selected reading, and in what ways they contributed.

What are the characteristics of culture? To receive full points for this question, you must: • Identify and define six characteristics of Culture • Select an article from the white "Annual Editions" reader and provide the main point of the article. Which of the six characteristics of culture appear in the article? Give specific examples with your discussion of each definition.

I choose the Article is Eating Christmas in the Kalahari

Bonus Problem, for 5 bonus points: If you could have any job in Anthropology, what would you do, and why? To recieve full points for this question, you must: • Indicate what your favorite job in Anthropology would be, and why. • Give at least one example from any two assigned readings that pertain to your choice.

My favorite Job in Anthropology is Anthropologist .

the study of human culture, societies and development

an individual’s sex (i.e., whether they are a male or female) is determined by the sex chromosomes. most people have two sex chromosomes, one that is inherited from their mother and one that is inherited from their father. typically, females have two x chromosomes (xx) and males have one x chromosome and one y chromosome (xy). conditions caused by changes (“mutations”) in genes located on the x chromosome are considered x-linked.

x-linked recessive inheritance

most x-linked conditions are recessive. this means that in a person with two x chromosomes (most females), both copies of a gene (i.e., one on each x chromosome) must have a change or mutation whereas in a person with one x chromosome (most males), only one copy of a gene must have a mutation. a female with a mutation in one copy of a gene on the x chromosome is said to be a “carrier” for an x-linked condition. a male with a mutation in a gene on the x chromosome is typically affected with the condition. because females have two copies of the x chromosome and males have only one x chromosome, x-linked recessive diseases are more common among males than females. however, x-linked recessive diseases can occur in both males and females.

for x-linked recessive disorders, an unaffected carrier mother who has a mutation in a gene on the x chromosome can transmit either the x chromosome with this mutation or a “normal” x chromosome to her children. if the father is unaffected, none of her daughters will be affected and all of her daughters will be unaffected—since they will inherit at least one normal x chromosome from their father. however, each daughter will have a 50% chance of being an unaffected carrier like her mother and a 50% chance of both x chromosomes being normal.

the answer is b. glad to .