Which of the Following Statements About Support Structures Is True

question 45

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about support structures is true?

• A) Heavier organisms have delicate skeletons relative to their body weight.
• B) The support structures of heavier organisms account for a higher percentage of their body weight than those of lighter organisms.
• C) Heavier organisms have stronger skeletons,relative to their body weight,than do lighter organisms.
• D) Skeleton weight does not reflect body weight.

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Definitions:

Symbolic Racism

A tendency to express negative biases held about a racial outgroup not at the group directly but at social policies seen as benefiting that group.

Ethnocentrism

Viewing the world through our own cultural value system and thereby judging actions and people based on our own culture’s views of right and wrong and good and bad.

Cultural Relativism

The principle of understanding and evaluating cultural practices and beliefs within their own social contexts rather than from an external standpoint.

Social Dominance Orientation

A scale that measures an individual’s preference for hierarchical relationships between social groups and the extent to which they support dominance and inequality among these groups.