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Many insects are what to the environment?
beneficial
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What do bees, wasps, butterflies, and ants do to flowers?
pollinate
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What do insects gather from plants?
nectar
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What kind of environmental problem would occur without pollination?
serious
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What insects feed on other insects?
Insectivorous
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Insectivorous insects are beneficial or harmful to humans?
beneficial
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What insect feeds on aphids?
ladybugs
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What are the most visible predators of insects?
birds
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What is the largest consumer of insects?
insects themselves
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Insects play prominent roles in what?
biological research
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What is a common insect used for research purposes?
fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster
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Drosophila has helped develop principles in what kind of linkage?
genetic
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Genetic systems are conserved among what?
eukaryotes
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What percent of the fly genome is similar to the human genome
70%
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Insects are considered as what in some cultures?
delicacies
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What deep-fried insect is part of the normal diet in some cultures?
cicadas
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Insects have what kind of protein content?
high
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What is the term for eating insects?
entomophagy
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Where is eating insects considered taboo?
first-world countries
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What ancient world insect is considered symbolic?
Scarab beetles
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Cicadas symbolize immortality in what culture?
Chinese
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What kind of ants are symbolic among the Australian Aborigines?
honey ants
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The praying mantis symbolizes patience and what else?
creation
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Witchety grubs serve as personal clan totems in what country?
Australia
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What do all living humans belong to?
the same species
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What species are all humans?
Homo sapiens
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Race has no taxonomic significance among whom?
humans
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What set of traits do some scientists use race to make distinctions among?
fuzzy
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How do scientists around the world continue to conceptualize race?
in widely differing ways
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What type of group can't be biologically defined?
racial
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What type of categorization in every day usage is there wide agreement it is only a social construct?
racial
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What do some people contend racial categories are obviously correlated with?
biological traits
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Some genetic markers have varying frequencies among what populations?
human
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What is the majority opinion on whether racial categories can be considered to have impact on human genetic variation?
no current consensus
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How do people create a social reality in which social categorization is achieved?
define and talk about a particular conception of race
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What can be said to be a social construct?
races
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What contexts do racial social constructs develop within?
legal, economic, and sociopolitical
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Constructs may be the result rather than the inciter of what?
major social situations
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What effect does race have in the lives of people?
real material
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Socioeconomic factors and enduring views on race has led to what for certain racial groups?
considerable suffering
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What is discrimination often paired with?
racist mindsets
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What do members of one group typically perceive the moral standing of outgroups as?
inferior
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What do groups with less power often find themselves?
excluded or oppressed
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What has led to many tragic instances of events like slavery and genocide?
Racism
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What does law enforcement in some countries use to profile suspects?
race
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Why is using racial categorization for profiling often criticized?
perpetuating an outmoded understanding of human biological variation
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What promotes stereotypes?
use of racial categories
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Who can race serve as a significant factor when studying social inequality?
social scientists
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What may in part reflect subjective attributes, self-identities and social institutions?
sociological factors
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What have human groups always considered themselves as compared to other nearby groups?
distinct
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What have differences among groups not typically been perceived as being?
natural, immutable and global
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During which process did our current idea of race come about?
exploration and conquest
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Where did Europeans come into contact with other groups?
different continents
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What ideaology is found in the natural sciences?
classification and typology
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When did many of the ideas associated with the term "race" arise?
time of the scientific revolution
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What created relations between Europeans and people with different cultures?
colonization
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Who speculated about the observable difference among different groups of humans?
Europeans
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Justifying the subordination of what group was one of the incentives to categorize human groups?
African slaves
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What groups has there always been brutal conflict between?
ethnic
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Who was the author of the first published book classifying humans into distinct races?
François Bernier
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In what century did differences among human groups become a focus of science?
18th century
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What race was typically ascribed the most desirable features?
White
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How was Homo sapiens europaeus described as?
active, acute, and adventurous
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What attributes were bestowed on homo spaiens afer?
crafty, lazy, and careless
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What year was Blumenbach's treatise published?
1775
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How many divisions did Blumenbach's treatise specify?
five
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What race was later renamed to Negroid?
Ethiopian
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What type of transition was noted from one group to the next?
graded
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What can one not mark between the variety of mankind?
limits
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What did the merging of superstitious beliefs and scientific ones regarding group differences produce?
an "ideology of race"
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What were races considered to be, according to the ideology of race?
primordial, natural, enduring and distinct
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How might some groups have resulted, according to the ideology?
mixture between formerly distinct populations
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What group was identified as being inferior to Europeans?
Negros
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Who particularly noted the unnatural sexual appetites of Africans?
Thomas Jefferson
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What theory is the belief that differences races had evolved independently on each continent?
polygenism
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What country did Edward Long and Charles White advocated the belief of polygenism in?
England
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What was the profession of Christoph Meiners and Georg Forster?
ethnographers
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In what century was polygenism most widespread?
19th century
[ "Race_(human_categorization)\n\nIn the last two decades of the 18th century, the theory of polygenism, the belief that different races had evolved separately in each continent and shared no common ancestor, was advocated in England by historian Edward Long and anatomist Charles White, in Germany by ethnographers Ch...
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The Ethnological Society was sympathetic towards what cause?
abolitionist
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What species do all living humans today belong to?
Homo sapiens
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When is it theorized that Homo habilis evolved in East Africa?
2 million years ago
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How many millions of years ago had Homo erectus spread throughout Europa and Asia?
1.5
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Members of what species populated parts of Africa in a relatively short time?
Homo habilis
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What group might have Archaic Homo sapiens evolve out of?
African Homo erectus
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Who taught and accepted the belief that biologically distinct races were isomorphic?
many anthropologists
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What practice was combined with the field of eugenics regarding the distinctness of social groups?
scientific racism
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What effect did the Nazi eugenics program have on racial essentialism?
lost widespread popularity
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What conclusions were race anthropologists pressured to revise?
sources of phenotypic variation
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What did a lot of modern anthropologists in the West come to view racial designation as?
invalid
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What type of geneticists have debates about what can provide a basis for a new conception of race?
Population
[ "Race_(human_categorization)\n\nPopulation geneticists have debated whether the concept of population can provide a basis for a new conception of race. In order to do this, a working definition of population must be found. Surprisingly, there is no generally accepted concept of population that biologists use. Altho...
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What class of researchers surprisingly have no generally accepted concept of population?
biologists
[ "Race_(human_categorization)\n\nPopulation geneticists have debated whether the concept of population can provide a basis for a new conception of race. In order to do this, a working definition of population must be found. Surprisingly, there is no generally accepted concept of population that biologists use. Altho...
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What do most definitions of population rely on?
qualitative descriptions
[ "Race_(human_categorization)\n\nPopulation geneticists have debated whether the concept of population can provide a basis for a new conception of race. In order to do this, a working definition of population must be found. Surprisingly, there is no generally accepted concept of population that biologists use. Altho...
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What do Waples and Gaggiotti identify two broad types of?
definitions for populations
[ "Race_(human_categorization)\n\nPopulation geneticists have debated whether the concept of population can provide a basis for a new conception of race. In order to do this, a working definition of population must be found. Surprisingly, there is no generally accepted concept of population that biologists use. Altho...
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What are both ecological and evolutionary definition modifiers of?
paradigm
[ "Race_(human_categorization)\n\nPopulation geneticists have debated whether the concept of population can provide a basis for a new conception of race. In order to do this, a working definition of population must be found. Surprisingly, there is no generally accepted concept of population that biologists use. Altho...
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What are traditionally geographically isolated?
subspecies
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What is "subspecies" used to indicate an objective degree of?
microevolutionary divergence
[ "Race_(human_categorization)\n\nTraditionally, subspecies are seen as geographically isolated and genetically differentiated populations. That is, \"the designation 'subspecies' is used to indicate an objective degree of microevolutionary divergence\" One objection to this idea is that it does not specify what degr...
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What is an objection to the idea of subspecies because it doesn't specify this?
degree of differentiation
[ "Race_(human_categorization)\n\nTraditionally, subspecies are seen as geographically isolated and genetically differentiated populations. That is, \"the designation 'subspecies' is used to indicate an objective degree of microevolutionary divergence\" One objection to this idea is that it does not specify what degr...
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What would a population have to somewhat be to be considered a subspecies?
biologically different
[ "Race_(human_categorization)\n\nTraditionally, subspecies are seen as geographically isolated and genetically differentiated populations. That is, \"the designation 'subspecies' is used to indicate an objective degree of microevolutionary divergence\" One objection to this idea is that it does not specify what degr...
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What did Templeton argue is necessary to impose a threshold on for a population to be a subspecies?
level of difference
[ "Race_(human_categorization)\n\nTraditionally, subspecies are seen as geographically isolated and genetically differentiated populations. That is, \"the designation 'subspecies' is used to indicate an objective degree of microevolutionary divergence\" One objection to this idea is that it does not specify what degr...
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What must organisms have a measurable level of to be seen as a subspecies?
difference
[ "Race_(human_categorization)\n\nThis effectively means that populations of organisms must have reached a certain measurable level of difference to be recognised as subspecies. Dean Amadon proposed in 1949 that subspecies would be defined according to the seventy-five percent rule which means that 75% of a populatio...