FLASHCARD DATA FOR MODERN HUMAN VARIATION.docVIP

FLASHCARD DATA FOR MODERN HUMAN VARIATION Topic 1: Overview Topic 2: Models of Classification Topic 3: Distribution of Blood Types 1. A kind of biological trait distribution in which there is a continuous, progressive gradation moving from one geographic region to another.? The gradual decrease in frequency of the B blood allele going west in Europe is an example of this trend. clinal distribution 2. A kind of biological trait distribution in which there are relatively isolated pockets with relatively high frequencies of people who have a particular trait or variation of a trait. discontinuous distribution 3. A model or system for classifying people based on the false assumption that humans can be unambiguously placed into races on the basis of selected traits such as skin color, hair form, and body shape.? Advocates of this approach incorrectly believe that there are more or less distinct populations of people from different geographic regions. This model is the basis for our “folk categories” of race widely used around the world. typological model of human variation 4. A model or system for classifying people based on the assumption that the only biologically distinct groups are long isolated breeding populations whose evolutionary paths have separated from other populations. populational model of human variation 5. A model or system for classifying people based on the fact that genetically inherited traits often gradually change in frequency from one geographic region to another--that is, they change in clines or progressively changing zones of degree difference with movement from one region to another. clinal model of human variation 6. The most commonly known human blood typing system in which there are 4 distinct types: A, B, AB, and O.? An individual inherits one of these types from his or her parents and does not change it throughout life. ABO blood typing system 7. Any of the distinct varieties of humanity assumed by some people to exist, b