1 A shellfish with a lustrous, brightly coloured inner

1 Abalone

2 ShelJone

3 Lustrone

4 Malone

10 A social group consisting of a number of harems shell which was popular for making ornaments for and all·male units is called thousands of years is

1 band

2 geladas

3 by troop

4 polyandry

2 When the distribution of data is continuous. which distribution is applicable?

1. Normal distribution

2. Binomial distribution

3. Poisson distribution

4. None of these

11 How common is genetic polymorphism in natural populations?

1. Essentially all loci are polymorphic


2. Essentially no loci are polymorphic

3. Depending on the species, all loci are polymorph"

4. Depending on the species, more or less than

3 Even though sickle cell anemia is usually fatal to half the loci are polymorphic homozygous individuals the disease persists because

1. gene therapy has alleviated the conditions

2. the disease is carried on a dominant allele

3. individuals with one allele for sickle cell anemia are resistant

4. all of these

12 Which of the following flaking techniques involves the removal of large and small percussion flakes which results in numerous step fractures?

1. Pressure flaking

2. Oblique--transverse flaking

3. Benton flaking

4. Percussion flaking

4 A semi-precious chalcedony formed as quartz fossils f a previous geological age is called

1. chaleate

2. agate

3. tusarite

4. maleate

13 What percent of atypical human's loci heterozygous?

1. 2

2. 5

3. 37

4. 55

5 Steatopygia is seen in

1. hottentots women

2. bushmen women

6 alamanni the german tribe in southern germany lived at the time

1. between100-240AO

2. between260and750AD

3. before 100 AD

4. between 800-950AD

14 Why is RNA rather than DNA considered to be the original genetic material?

1. Most organisms use RNA as their genetic material

2. Virus the simplest life form uses RNA

3. RNA is more stable than DNA

4. RNA has the ability to catatyze a few simple chemical reactions

15 In the cycle of steps that make up the scientific

1. deduction must always come before induction

2. testing a hypothesis is not as important as looking for patterns

3. one must always be aware of the effect of preconceptions

4. all of these

7 Students t-test is used when the population standard deviation is not known and the sample size is

1.

2. Small

3. Both 1 and 2

4. None of these

8 What is/are the basic principle(s) of field experimentation?

1. Replication

2. Randomization

3. Local control

4. All of these

16 Which of the following statements about fieldwork is false?

1. Fieldwork is always conducted outside one's own

2. Fieldwork is the data.collecting and hypothesis­testing aspect of anthropology

3. All sub fields of anthropology conduct fieldwork

4. Field work requires an anthropologist to recognize his/her biases

9 An assistant to a full·time, trained religious specialist, who can interpret the supernatural and petition the supernatural on behalf d humans is called a environment

1. Deacon

2. Priest

3. Shaman

4. Medium

17 The ANOVA is a tool by which total variation may be split up into several physically assignable components was defined by

1. Karl Pearson

2. R.A. Fisher

3. Horace Secrist

4. A.l. Bowley

18 Supernatural beings are

1. malevolent

2. benevolent

3. mischievous

4. all of these

19 Brachycephalic is short headed: as applied to measurement of the human skull, with a width which is

1. more than 4/5 of the length

2. less than 4/5 of the length

3. less than 1/5 of the length

4. between of the length

20 In the Hardy-Weinberg equation, the term 2pq represents the frequency of the

1. dominant homozygotes

2. recessive homozygotes

3. dominant alleles

4. heterozygotes

21 Catastrophic age profile: a mortality pattern is based on

1. -natural-age distribution analysis

2. bone analysis

3. tooth wear analysis

4. all of these

22 Catarrhine nose is found in

1. old world monkeys

2. apes

3. humans

4. all of these

23 A ritual well at the late Maya site of Chichen Itza, into which enormous quantities of symbolically rich goods had been deposited, is

1. cenote

2. gave

3. cave

4. none of these

24 Hylobatidae family includes

1. gibbons

2. siamang

3. both 1 and 2

4. none of these

25 A subfamily of Old World monkeys that are omnivorous and possess cheek pouches is called

1. cercopithecinae

2. cal1itrichidae

3. hylobatidae

4. cercopithecidae

26 Which of the following is/are not the type(s) of genetic variation(s)?


1. Additive type of gene action


2. Dominance type of gene action

3. Epistatic type of gene action

4. All of these

27 Cercopithecidae family includes

1. guenons

2. mangabeys

3. macaques

4. all of these

28 The variation due to uncontrolled factors is known as­

1. standard error

2. experimental error

3. treatment effects

4. all of these

29 The term mana in polynesian culture refers to

1. a force possessed by a person, a place, or a non living thing

2. part of a deceased holy person's remains

3. a gum or spice producing a sweet smell when burned

4. a substance miraculously supplied as food to the Israelites in the wilderness

30 A rare recessive abnormality characterized by dwarfism, extra fingers, and malformations of the heart, high incidence among the Amish is

1. chondrodystrophic dwarfism

2. myxedema

3. Ellis-van Creveld syndrome

4. Laron dwarfism

31 A method in which hypotheses are tested by comparing two or more populations that are similar or identical in most respects other than that which has been defined as the independent variable is

1. dependent comparison

2. controlled comparison

3. T-test

4. Chi square test


32 Coprolites are fossilized


1. teeth

2. hairs

3. feces

4. good

33 Uranium series dating is a dating method particularty useful for the period before

1. 10,OOOyearsago

2. 25,000 years ago

3. 40,000 years ago

4. 50,000 years ago

34 A series of regional disasters destroYe<:! local plant
1. frequency seriation animals from the unaffected regions moved into the

2. contextual seriation newly unoccupied regions; these animals looked

3. concurrence seriation different from the previous ones which were found in

4. both 1 and 2 the fossil record. This is called
41 Seriation can be recognized as and animal life, but left other regions unaffected;

1. cuvier catastrophism

2. catarrhine catastrophism

3. cuneiform catastrophism

4. corvettecalastrophism

42 Deep-sea cores provide us with the most coherent record of

1. sea organisms in the localized zone

2. sea organisms in the world wide zone

3. mineral content in the sea water

4. climate changes on a worldwide scale are the examples of

35 Premature baldness, hypertrichosis in human male

1. sex influenced traits

2. sex limited traits give a sensitive indicator of which of the following at

3. sex linked characters

4. sex governed characters the time the organisms were alive?
43 Shells of microsoopic marine organisms (for aminifera)


1. Calcium content

2. Phosphorus content

3. Sea temperature

4. Salt levels in the sea
36 A datum-point usually at a known elevation above

sea-level, to which mapped elevatioos may be related is called

1. benchmark

2. datum plane

3. vertical datum

4. vertical provenience
44 Which of the following is a highly complex religious
system headed by a full·time priest?

1. Ecclesiastical cult

2. Shaman cult

3. Celsiastical cult

4. none of these

37 -The relationship between independent and dependent variables is computed by

1. regression coefficient

2. correlation coefficient

3. both 1 and 2

4. none of these
45 When conducting fieldwork an anthropologist must describe another society from its point of view, without imposing his/her own values. This is called


1. subjective study

2. cultural relativity

3. scientific method gravestones?

4. acculturation
38 Which dating technique would you use to date buried

1. Relative dating

2. Dendrochronology

3. Potassium/argon dating

4. Stratigraphic sequencing

46 Which of the following is the glass-like material first made in predynastic Egypt?

1. Faience

2. Obsidian

3. Both 1 and 2

4. None of these

39 Cation·ratio dating: this method aspires to the direct dating of rock carvings and engravings and is also potentially applicable to

1. paleolithic artifacts

2. neolithic artifacts

3. archaic artifacts

4. none of these
47 The statistical procedure for estimating whether the difference under study is significant or non significant is known as

1. test of significance

2. standard error

3. level of significance

4. sampling

40 The method of relative dating in which artifacts are arranged according to the frequencies of their co­occurrence in specific contexts (usually burials) was pioneered in the 19th century by

1. Napier and Napier

2. Allen

3. Flinders Petrie

4. Claudie Levi-Strauss

48 In the context of evolution of man, who amongst the following left evidence of artistic ability in the form of drawings and paintings on the walls of the caves

1. Cra-Magnon man

2. JavaApe-Man

3. Neanderthal Man

4. Peking Man


49 The vertical dimension of artifacts is important for determining

1. time and order of events

2. why an event happened

3. what the artifacts were used for

4. the condition in which the artifacts were left

50 Polymorphism with an environmental trigger is called

1. switch

2. polyphenism

3. polyfactor

4. poIyenviron

51 Sediments transported by wind are called

1. eolian deposits

2. fluvial deposits'

3. alluvial deposits

4. none of these

52 In glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency the afflicted individuals develop severe anemia when in contact with

1. the fava bean

2. anti malarial drugs

3. rich foods

4. both 1 and 2

53 Galagos is also called

1. bush baby

2. agile baby

3. gala baby

4. none of these

54 Which of the following is the phenomenon whereby an allele may have a different effect on the offspring depending on the sex of the contributing parent?

1. Genome imprinting

2. Genetic determinism

3. Genetic equilibrium

4. Genetic load

55 The refutationist view which emphasizes the importance of testabilityas a component of scientific theories is developed by

1. Niles Eldredge

2. Stephen J. Gould

3. KaM Popper

4. None of these


56 An increase in the inbreeding coefficient, f is likely to result in

1. higher proportion of genes that show linkage

2. higher proportion of genes with introns

3. reduced likelihood of heterozygotes being present in a population

4. lower levels of difference between proteins in t'oNo daughter cells

57 Marriage patterns are most often correlated with

1. the nuclear family

2. subsistence patterns

3. political organization

4. the environment

58 Underwater reconnaissance include(s)

1. a proton magnetometer towed behind a survey vessel, so as to detect iron and steel objects which distort the earth's magnetic field

2. side scan sonar that transmits sound waves in a fan-.shaped beam to produce a graphic image of surface features on the sea-bed

3. a sub-bottom profiler that emits sound pulses which bounce back from features and objects buried beneath the sea floor

4. all of these

59 Ho, Oraon and Kol are

1. the tribal languages

2. the scheduled tribes

3. other backward classes

4. none of these

60 The mechanism of balancing selection involves

1. heterosis

2. frequency dependent selection

3. both 1 and 2

4. none of these

61 Preponderant influence or authority of one individual or a social group over another is called

1. hermeneutics

2. hegemony

3. capitalism

4. none of these

62 Which of the following marriages is/are inter-caste marriage(s)

1. anuloma

2.

3. sutaJoma

4. both 1 and 2

63 Which of the following is a paleospecies that had a very wide geographical distribution but existed for a relatively short period oftime, either becoming extinct or evolving into something else?

1. Index fossil

2. Star fossil

3. Unit fossil

4. Unifoss

64 Klinefelter's syndrome has a sex- chrmosome count

1. XYY

2. XXy

3. xxy

4. xyyy

65 Which of the following is required to see a founder effect?

1. High rate of new mutations

2. Population bottle necks in which the population is reduced to a relatively smaller number of breeding individuals

3. lethality of homozygotes with mutant allele

4. Selection in favor of heterozygotes

66 Around 60% of the world's societies are


1. Fowa

2. Epoch

1. km

2. medium

75 The shape of the beaks of Darwin's finches, are all examples of industrial melanism and the changes in horses teeth

1. matrilineal

2. bilineal

3. unilineal

4. pattiineal

67 The political organization with no central leader but
3. a state organization

1. artificial selection

4. a men's association

2. natural selection

where the subunits may make collective decisions about the entire group is called


76 Which of the following is a theory of evolutionary change which holds that organisms in a group maintain younger characteristics of ancestral

3. convergent evolution

4. homologous structures

2. a tribal organization

68 Which of the following is a social custom under which a widavver has the right to marry one of his deceased wife's sisters and her kin are obliged to provide him with a new wife

1. Levi'ate

2. Sororate

3. Lunorate

4. None of these


69 Which of the following is a believer in religious or groups while becoming sexually mature during what was previously an infantile or juvenile stage of development; also, the retarded development of specific characteristics?

1. Sapir-Whorl hypothesis

2. Neoteny hypothesis

3. Synthetic theory

4. None of these


77 What percentage of world societies is polygynous? philosophical dualism, from a religious dualism originating in Persia in the third century A.D. and


1. Less than

2. 25% teaching the release of the spirit from matter through

3. 50%

4. Over 70% strict self-denial?



78 ·Surveyor's staff is

3. Manichean

4. Altruist

1. a measurement tape

2. a stadia rock

70 The principle in which the most accurate phy10genetic tree is one that is based on least changes in the

3. a digging apparatus

4. all of these genetic code is

1. annotation

79 All of the following can have a significant effect on

1. migration

4. genetic equilibrium

2. natural selection

71 Sacred thread ceremony is called

1. Shraddha samskara

3. genetic drift

4. non random mating

2. Upanayana samskara

80 Which of the following religious group{s) f1nd(s) that

1. Jews

2. Christians

3. Aztecs

4. All of these

72 Which of the follO'Wing tribes is/are having a population of more than 30 lakhs

3. Mundan samskara sacrifice is pleasing to their supernatural beings?

4. Namaskarana samskara
81 Which of the following is a non·statistical sampling

1. Gonds

2. Bhils strategywhich concentrates on sampling areas on

3. Santhals

4. All of these the basis of intuition, historical documentation, or

73 Mossbauer spectroscopy is used in the analysis of artifact composition in pottery, particularly the compounds of

1. boron

2. cobalt

3. silica

4. iron long field experience in the area


74 The annual deposition of varves make them a useful source of

1. evolution

2. minerals

3. dating

4. fossils

82 Trace element analysis is done using

1. neutron activation analysis

2. X-ray fluorescence spectrometry

3. mass spectrometry

4. both 1 and 2



83 MNI (minimum number of individuals) is usually

1. Probabilistic sampling

2. Random sampling

3. Non-probabilistic sampling

4. Skewed sampling
89 Which of the following is a method of generating calculated from settlement hierarchy which territories to

1. the most abundant bone from either of the two centers based on their scale, assuming that the size sides of the animal of each center is directly proportional to its area of

2. the most abundant tooth from the left side of influence the animal

3. Thiessen polygons

4. all of these



84 Fragments containing inscriptions

1. ostracum •

2. sherds

3. both 1 and 2

4. none of these

90 A rock formed of consolidated pumice or volcanic ash which is occasionally used as a raw material for lithic artifacts is called

1. Mano

2. macula

3. welded tuff

4. weir

85 . True brachiation is a

1. XTENT modeling

3. the most abundant tooth from the right side of the animal

2. central place theory

4. none of these
91 World system was a term coined by the historian

1. Wallerstein

2. Mortimer Wheeler

4. locomotor pattern involving extensive use of the

3. Pitt Rivers


92 An Eskimo word for a relatively large, semi-lunate, locomotor pattern involving extensive use of the side-mounted "woman's knife" hands in leaping; seen in basically quadrupedal

1. Henge

2. Ulu animals

3. Camas

4. Labret



93 Which of the following is an enzyme deficiency of lipid metabolism inherited as a recessive; causes death in early childhood?

1. Tay-Sachs disease propelled by arm swinging as the animal rapidly

2. G-6·P·D deficiency disease moves hand-over-hand along a branch

3. Alkaptonuria

86 Zuni is/are

4. None of these

1. pueblo people whose modern-day reservation

3. slower and more cautious form of brachiation; seen in the orangutan

2. form of locomotion found in the lesser apes in which the body, suspended from above, is
94 The concept of molecular clock implies that lands are in northwestern New Mexico 1. many proteins show a constant rate of change

2. language spoken by tribal members with time


3. one can date events with molecules alone

4. all molecules change at same rate in evolution

87 Stabilizing selection favors

1. both extreme of a trait

3. both 1 and 2

2. organisms evolve at a constant rate

4. none of these

95 Which of the following can be a factor in the rise of a

2. intermediate forms of a trait new species?

3. environmental differences

1. Changing environment

4. one extreme form over the other extreme form



88 What can occur when a portion of a species is isolated from the rest of the

species?

1. The evolution of a new species

2. Genetic change when genes are passed to new


4. C.J. Thomsen hands and prehensile

96 Tesseera is a are

1. small tablet(s) (as afwood, bone, or ivory) used by the ancient Romans as a ticket, tally, voucher, or means of identification generations in frequencies unlike those of the parental generation

2. small piece(s) (as of marble, glass, or tile) used in mosaic work

3. Natural selection for new adaptations in response to changing environmental conditions

4. Spontaneous changes in the genetic code

97 The principle of making use of greater homogeneity

2. Moving populations and over intermediate forms of a trait

3. Splitting populations

4. All of these

99 Which scientist had the same ideas on the in groups of experimental error is referred to as transmutations of species as Charles Darwin?


1. Alfred Russell Wallace

2. local control

3. none of these

4. Stephen Hawking


98 Which of the following is a plant or animal whose Gregor Mendel name is adopted by a clan and that holds a special signifICance for its members, usually related to their


1. Fowa

2. Epoch

3. km

4. medium

100 Crucible slags may be distinguished from smelting mythical ancestry slags by their concentration of copper


1. Totem

4. Demo

2. high

3. very high