Matrilineal Descent Is Typically Found in Which Type of Societies

question 5

Multiple Choice

Matrilineal descent is typically found in which type of societies?

• A) hunting and gathering, where women gather vegetation
• B) horticultural, where women are the main food producers
• C) industrial, where women enter the workplace
• D) post-industrial, where women dominate intellectual fields of work

---

Definitions:

Ultrasound

A medical imaging technique that uses high-frequency sound waves to produce images of structures within the body, commonly used in prenatal care.

Heritability

A measure of how much of the variation in a trait among individuals within a population can be attributed to genetic differences.

Genomic Imprinting

A genetic phenomenon by which certain genes are expressed in a parent-specific manner, affecting the phenotype of an organism without altering the DNA sequence.

Genotype

The genetic makeup of an organism, comprising all the inherited alleles, that determines specific characteristics or traits.