ANTHRO 128B Study Guide - Final Guide: Heterosexuality, Mexican Americans, Zygosity
16 Sep 2017
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Research after 60s, 80s, etc. they showed that race is not a biological category: most of the difference we absorb is cultural, race is not a biological meaningful category. Human genome project (hgp): research e ort focused on creating a map locating all human genes: mapping location of all human genes. Gene is a stretch of dna that codes for a protein. Which chromosome are they on and where on the chromosome: project began in 1990; draft announced in 2000, complete draft in. 2003: more than 3 billion nucleotide pairs, estimated 30,000 genes identified. Which shows a lot of our dna is not coded by proteins: volunteers near laboratories contributed dna samples for sequencing; identities of the volunteers are not known! There was this idea that basically all human genetics is the same no matter who is giving the same. Race has no genetic or scientific basis. craig venter: they all emphasize that there is no biological race!
