Children Who Have One Dark-Skinned Parent and One Light-Skinned Parent

question 62

Multiple Choice

Children who have one dark-skinned parent and one light-skinned parent can have a skin tone that is somewhere between their mother's skin color and their father's skin color.This is an example of

• A)incomplete dominance.
• B)mutation.
• C)polygenic inheritance.
• D)codominance.

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A structured community of people bound together by similar traditions, institutions, or nationality.

Ethnocentrism

The belief in the inherent superiority of one's own ethnic group or culture, often at the expense of other cultures.

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The process by which individuals or groups adjust to and integrate with new cultural environments or changes.

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The principle that beliefs, values, and practices of a culture should be understood based on that culture's own context rather than judged against the criteria of another.