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The term “gender order,” and related terms masculinities and femininities, __________.

In many less developed countries, policy efforts aimed at curbing population growth include:  

Which theoretical perspective might focus on how multi-national corporation’s embrace and encourage ageism in order to sell products aimed at “staying young,” the purpose of which is to enhance profits. 

From a sociological perspective, in simple terms, sex references ______; gender is _______.

The echidna is an egg-laying mammal whose body is covered in quills for protection from predators.  The porcupine’s body also is covered in quills for protection, although porcupines are not closely related to echidnas and most other mammals do not have quills. What is the best explanation for presence of quills in these two species?

A tsunami kills most of a hermit crab population but there are a few survivors.  Several of them have unusually wide claws on their front legs.  Several generations later, the hermit crab population has recovered but claw width is larger than in the original population.  Which of the following best describes this scenario?

ESSAY: NATURAL SELECTION Tarsiers are a kind of primate. They have the largest eyes relative to body size of any mammal — each eyeball is as large as their brain! Tarsiers are active only during the night, and their huge eyes are an adaptation for this nocturnal lifestyle.   Like you practiced in the “synthesis” portion of Homework #2, provide a logical and detailed explanation of how, across generations, a population of tarsiers with extremely large eyes evolved from an ancestral population with normal-sized eyes due to the process of natural selection.  Apply and define relevant vocabulary.   [Note: Unlike in Homework #2, here you do not need to list the 4 criteria first, just provide the “synthesis” part of the explanation. Your explanation should be clear, complete, and logical so that someone who does not already understand natural selection would be able to understand the process by which huge eyes evolved in tarsiers.)

Which statement best explains why genetic polymorphism (multiple alleles present for a given locus) is important to evolution?

My parents __________ me a lot about life when I was a child.

The weather __________ (be) very different when the semester ends next month.