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While anthropologists have gone to lengths to show that languages are linguistically equal, languages often exist in a hierarchical manner within a given place. Compare how language and power intersect by discussing how nonprestige languages may be marginalized. How are boundaries between language policed, and what happens when speakers "code switch" in different cultural contexts?


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Incomplete Dominance

A genetic situation in which one allele does not completely dominate another allele, resulting in a new phenotype that blends the parents' traits.

Monozygotic

Pertaining to identical twins that developed from a single fertilized egg, sharing the same genetics.

Dizygotic

Referring to twins who develop from two different eggs fertilized by two different sperm, also known as fraternal twins.

Gender Selection

The practice of influencing the probability of having a child of a particular sex using various medical or natural methods.

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