Which of the Following Statements Is Most True About People

question 15

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is most true about people with dwarfism?

• A) They experience few stereotypes.
• B) Laws and polices targeting little people have improved their opportunities in recent years.
• C) The term little people is preferred over dwarf.
• D) The amount of contact they have with typically statured people is positively correlated to their stereotyping.

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Definitions:

Resistant Populations

Groups of organisms that have developed the ability to withstand environmental pressures, such as chemicals or diseases, that would normally be harmful.

Directional Selection

A type of natural selection in which one extreme phenotype is favored over other phenotypes, causing the allele frequency to shift over time in the direction of that phenotype.

Selection Differential

A measure of the difference between the mean phenotype of the selected parents and the mean phenotype of the general population.

Narrow Sense Heritability

A measure of how much of the variance in a trait among individuals in a population is due to additive genetic factors.