BANC-107 Biological Diversity in Human Populations in English Solved Assignment 2024-2025

BANC-107 Biological Diversity in Human Populations Solved Assignment 2024-2025

TUTOR MARKED ASSIGNMENT
(TMA)
Course Code: BANC 107
Assignment Code: BANC 107/ASST/TMA/ July 2024-January 2025
Total Marks: 100

Assignment I
Answer the following in about 500 words each. 20×2= 40
a. What is the human biological variation? Briefly examine the importance of somatoscopic
characters in understanding population variation.
b. Briefly discuss B.S. Guha’s classification of Indian populations.
Assignment II
Answer any two of the following questions in about 250 words each. 10×2=20
a. Briefly discuss the influence of Bio-cultural factors on Diseases with suitable examples
b. Define Demography. Briefly discuss various fertility measures.
c. Briefly comment on various demographic processes, Fertility, Mortality, and Migration.
Answer the following questions in about 50 words each. 2×5=10
a. Physical Anthropology vs Biological Anthropology
b. Ethnicity and Race
c. mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)
d. Genetic Drift
e. Population vs Mendelian population
Assignment III
Answer the following questions in about 250 words 10×3=30
a. Describe the procedure for measuring Bizygomatic Breadth and Upper Facial Height.
Describe the landmarks involved
b. Describe the procedure for phenotyping of ABO blood group system
c. What is Dermatoglyphics? Briefly comment on the classification of Fingerprints with
suitable diagrams.

BANC-107, BANC 107, BANC107