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DUET Last 10 Years 2011-2021 Question Papers With Answer Key || Delhi University Entrance Test conducted by the NTA

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DU MPhil PhD in Anthropology

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Which of the following is not a characteristic of totalitarian societies?
1. one-party rule [Option ID = 26057]
2. a centrally planned economy [Option ID = 26058]
3. freedom of movement for citizens [Option ID = 26059]
4. indoctrination and propaganda [Option ID = 26060]
Correct Answer :-

• one-party rule [Option ID = 26057]
Which of the following is not a blood group?
1. Bombay [Option ID = 25888]
2. Lutheran [Option ID = 25886]
3. Kidd [Option ID = 25885]
4. Haptoglobin [Option ID = 25887]
Correct Answer :-

• Kidd [Option ID = 25885]
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Which of the following measures of central tendency is most influenced by extreme values?
1. Mean [Option ID = 26034]
2. Range [Option ID = 26036]
3. Mode [Option ID = 26035]
4. Median [Option ID = 26033]
Correct Answer :-

• Median [Option ID = 26033]
Which of the following focuses on the hidden intentions and unexpressed biases of the author of an ethnography?
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1. Deconstruction [Option ID = 26016]
2. Epistemology [Option ID = 26014]
3. Ontology [Option ID = 26013]
4. Aesthetics [Option ID = 26015]
Correct Answer :-
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• Ontology [Option ID = 26013]
Which site is known as "Text Book Section" site?
1. Narmada Valley [Option ID = 25996]
2. Ganga Valley [Option ID = 25993]
3. Sohan Valley [Option ID = 25995]
4. Belan Valley [Option ID = 25994]
Correct Answer :-

• Ganga Valley [Option ID = 25993]

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Which one of the following has the correct order of stages of mitosis?
1. Metaphase, Telophase, Prophase and Anaphase [Option ID = 25899]
2. Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase and Telophase [Option ID = 25897]
3. Prophase, Telophase, Metaphase, and Anaphase [Option ID = 25900]
4. Anaphase, Prophase, Metaphase, and Telophase [Option ID = 25898]
Correct Answer :-

• Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase and Telophase [Option ID = 25897]
Which one of the following is not the factors which were considered to be the eligible condition for declaration as a Scheduled Area as mentioned by Verrier Elwin in his book 'A New Deal for Tribal India'
1. under-developed character [Option ID = 26043]
2. preponderence of tribals in the population [Option ID = 26041]
3. compact and reasonable size [Option ID = 26042]
4. unmarked disparity in economic standard of the people [Option ID = 26044]
Correct Answer :-

• preponderence of tribals in the population [Option ID = 26041]
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Which one of the following is the correct sequence of Alpine glaciation?
1. Gunz - Mindel – Riss – Wurm [Option ID = 25910]
2. Gunz - Riss – Mindel – Wurm [Option ID = 25909]
3. Gunz - Wurm – Mindel – Riss [Option ID = 25911]
4. Mindel - Riss – Wurm – Gunz [Option ID = 25912]
Correct Answer :-

• Gunz - Riss – Mindel – Wurm [Option ID = 25909]
Which of the following is related to 'Ramapithecus'?
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1. Homo [Option ID = 25968]
2. Australopithecus [Option ID = 25966]
3. Gigantopithecus [Option ID = 25967]
4. Sivapithecus [Option ID = 25965]
Correct Answer :-
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• Sivapithecus [Option ID = 25965]
Foz Coa valley is famous for
1. Middle Palaeolithic site [Option ID = 25991]
2. Upper Palaeolithic site [Option ID = 25992]
3. Open air rock art [Option ID = 25989]
4. Neolithic site [Option ID = 25990]
Correct Answer :-

• Open air rock art [Option ID = 25989]

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An explanation or interpretation supported by a reliable body of data is
1. Theory [Option ID = 26023]
2. Concept [Option ID = 26021]
3. Axiom [Option ID = 26022]
4. Hypothesis [Option ID = 26024]
Correct Answer :-

• Concept [Option ID = 26021]
Venus of Willendorf is characteristics of
1. Middle Palaeoltihc Culture [Option ID = 25907]
2. Upper Palaeolithic Culture [Option ID = 25905]
3. Megalithic Culture [Option ID = 25908]
4. Neolithic Culture [Option ID = 25906]
Correct Answer :-

• Upper Palaeolithic Culture [Option ID = 25905]
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Manitoo is
1. the guardian spirit of an individual in Khond belief [Option ID = 25931]
2. the guardian spirit of an individual in Ojibwa belief [Option ID = 25932]
3. the guardian spirit of an individual in Neur belief [Option ID = 25929]
4. the guardian spirit of an individual in Toda belief [Option ID = 25930]
Correct Answer :-

• the guardian spirit of an individual in Neur belief [Option ID = 25929]
In anthropology, the stereotyping of the East by Western people, especially described by Edward Said is
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1. Orientalism [Option ID = 25933]
2. Network Analysis [Option ID = 25936]
3. Transformational Theory [Option ID = 25934]
4. Interpretative Theory [Option ID = 25935]
Correct Answer :-
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• Orientalism [Option ID = 25933]
Clifford Geertz analysed culture as an organised collection of
1. cognitive systems that are generated in the mind [Option ID = 26010]
2. symbolic systems that are acted out in public displays [Option ID = 26011]
3. material systems that are found in society [Option ID = 26009]
4. structural systems with binary oppositions [Option ID = 26012]
Correct Answer :-

• material systems that are found in society [Option ID = 26009]

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Mating between phenotypically similar or dissimilar individuals is known as
1. Random mating [Option ID = 25880]
2. Assortive mating [Option ID = 25879]
3. Consanguinity [Option ID = 25877]
4. Inbreeding [Option ID = 25878]
Correct Answer :-

• Consanguinity [Option ID = 25877]
A structural model proposed by Levi Strauss in which roast, smoked and boiled foods are seen as analogous to raw, cooked and, rotted foods
1. Culinary Art [Option ID = 25917]
2. Culinary Mapping [Option ID = 25919]
3. Culinary Triangle [Option ID = 25918]
4. Food Mapping [Option ID = 25920]
Correct Answer :-

• Culinary Art [Option ID = 25917]
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"The Origin of Races" was written by
1. Joseph Deniker [Option ID = 25951]
2. E. A. Hooton [Option ID = 25950]
3. C. S. Coon [Option ID = 25949]
4. S. M. Garn [Option ID = 25952]
Correct Answer :-

• C. S. Coon [Option ID = 25949]
"Replacement level fertility" is the level of total fertility rate where a population experience
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1. Stable population size [Option ID = 25980]
2. Instability [Option ID = 25979]
3. Exponential growth [Option ID = 25977]
4. Shrinking growth [Option ID = 25978]
Correct Answer :-
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• Exponential growth [Option ID = 25977]
Twins descended from a single fertilized ovum are
1. Molar twins [Option ID = 26029]
2. Monozygotic twins [Option ID = 26031]
3. Dizygotic twins [Option ID = 26030]
4. Trizygotic twins [Option ID = 26032]
Correct Answer :-

• Molar twins [Option ID = 26029]

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Who is the father of Indian Prehistory?
1. R. B. Foote [Option ID = 25901]
2. L.S.B. Leakey [Option ID = 25902]
3. M. K. Dhavalikar [Option ID = 25904]
4. H. D. Sankalia [Option ID = 25903]
Correct Answer :-

• R. B. Foote [Option ID = 25901]
Who is the author of the book "Palaeolithic Europe"?
1. V. N. Misra [Option ID = 25916]
2. D. K. Bhattacharya [Option ID = 25913]
3. F. Bordes [Option ID = 25915]
4. H. D. Sankalia [Option ID = 25914]
Correct Answer :-

• D. K. Bhattacharya [Option ID = 25913]
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Shouldered Celt is characteristics of
1. Central India [Option ID = 25988]
2. Northern India [Option ID = 25986]
3. Eastern India [Option ID = 25985]
4. Southern India [Option ID = 25987]
Correct Answer :-

• Eastern India [Option ID = 25985]
Bow and arrow was invented during the
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1. Middle Palaeolithic culture [Option ID = 26061]
2. Upper Palaeolithic culture [Option ID = 26062]
3. Mesolithic culture [Option ID = 26063]
4. Iron age culture [Option ID = 26064]
Correct Answer :-
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• Middle Palaeolithic culture [Option ID = 26061]
Facetted platform and truncated scars are characteristics of
1. Fluted core [Option ID = 26068]
2. Discoid core [Option ID = 26067]
3. Levalloisean flake [Option ID = 26065]
4. Clactonian flake [Option ID = 26066]
Correct Answer :-

• Levalloisean flake [Option ID = 26065]

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In physiology, the study relating to the flow of blood within the organs and tissues of the body is known as
1. Hematology [Option ID = 26050]
2. Serology [Option ID = 26051]
3. Haemoglobinopathy [Option ID = 26049]
4. Haemodynamic [Option ID = 26052]
Correct Answer :-

• Haemoglobinopathy [Option ID = 26049]
To develop the concept of 'Universalisation' and 'Parochialisation', McKim Marriot conducted his study among
1. Kishangarhi village in Western Madhya Pradesh [Option ID = 26038]
2. Kishangarhi village in Western Uttar Pradesh [Option ID = 26037]
3. Rampur village in Mysore [Option ID = 26039]
4. None of these [Option ID = 26040]
Correct Answer :-

• Kishangarhi village in Western Uttar Pradesh [Option ID = 26037]
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Neighbour Joining is a specific type of
1. Method used in making psychosocial assessment [Option ID = 25872]
2. Method used in making visual anthropological documentaries [Option ID = 25871]
3. Method used in phylogenetics [Option ID = 25869]
4. Method used in Palaeoanthropological excavations [Option ID = 25870]
Correct Answer :-

• Method used in phylogenetics [Option ID = 25869]
Social Drama is associated with
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1. Levi Strauss [Option ID = 25940]
2. S.F. Nadel [Option ID = 25938]
3. A.R. Radcliffe Brown [Option ID = 25937]
4. Victor Turner [Option ID = 25939]
Correct Answer :-
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• A.R. Radcliffe Brown [Option ID = 25937]
Marx saw cultures passing through the stages of
1. slave society, primitive communism feudalism, capitalism and communism [Option ID = 26004]
2. slave society, primitive communism, communism, feudalism, capitalism [Option ID = 26003]
3. primitive communism, communism, slave society, feudalism, capitalism [Option ID = 26001]
4. primitive communism, slave society, feudalism, capitalism and communism [Option ID = 26002]
Correct Answer :-

• primitive communism, communism, slave society, feudalism, capitalism [Option ID = 26001]

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Ectomorph refers to a body type with
1. More fat in the abdomen and thighs [Option ID = 25972]
2. Little body fat and muscle [Option ID = 25969]
3. Athletic and strong physique [Option ID = 25971]
4. Lots of body fat and muscle [Option ID = 25970]
Correct Answer :-

• Little body fat and muscle [Option ID = 25969]
X chromosome inactivation in females is a
1. Biased process [Option ID = 25895]
2. Random process [Option ID = 25896]
3. Non random process [Option ID = 25893]
4. Hormonal process [Option ID = 25894]
Correct Answer :-

• Non random process [Option ID = 25893]
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Participation in research should be based on the principle of
1. standard consent [Option ID = 26017]
2. acquired consent [Option ID = 26018]
3. rational consent [Option ID = 26020]
4. informed consent [Option ID = 26019]
Correct Answer :-

• standard consent [Option ID = 26017]
Okkaligas which was mentioned in M. N. Srinivas's study belongs to
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1. Peasants [Option ID = 25942]
2. Untouchables [Option ID = 25944]
3. Brahmins [Option ID = 25941]
4. Shepherds [Option ID = 25943]
Correct Answer :-
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• Brahmins [Option ID = 25941]
Roy Rappaport in his book Pigs for the Ancestors: Rituals in the Ecology of a New Guinea People, compares rituals to
1. Chargers [Option ID = 26054]
2. Thermostats [Option ID = 26053]
3. Refrigerators [Option ID = 26055]
4. Batteries [Option ID = 26056]
Correct Answer :-

• Thermostats [Option ID = 26053]

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Males and females can be affected. Males and females transmit the trait with equal frequency. Successive generations are affected. Transmission stops after a generation in which no one is affected. These are the characteristics of
1. Autosomal dominant traits [Option ID = 25890]
2. Autosomal recessive traits [Option ID = 25889]
3. X-linked dominant traits [Option ID = 25891]
4. X-linked recessive traits [Option ID = 25892]
Correct Answer :-

• Autosomal recessive traits [Option ID = 25889]
The study of relations between culture and the natural world, especially in the theoretical perspective of Julian Steward
1. Enculturation [Option ID = 25924]
2. Cultural Ecology [Option ID = 25923]
3. Cultural relativism [Option ID = 25922]
4. Cultural Naturalism [Option ID = 25921]
Correct Answer :-

• Cultural Naturalism [Option ID = 25921]
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The idea that one must suspend judgment on other people's practices in order to understand them in their own cultural terms is called
1. Moral Determinism [Option ID = 26028]
2. Moral Relativism [Option ID = 26027]
3. Cultural Relativism [Option ID = 26026]
4. Cultural Determinism [Option ID = 26025]
Correct Answer :-

• Cultural Determinism [Option ID = 26025]
The larger perspective which embraces both evolutionism and diffusionism is called
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1. Diachronic [Option ID = 25998]
2. Synchronic [Option ID = 25997]
3. Interactive [Option ID = 26000]
4. Interpretive [Option ID = 25999]
Correct Answer :-
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• Synchronic [Option ID = 25997]
Who first suggested the term 'New Synthesis'?
1. T. H. Huxley [Option ID = 25883]
2. Dobzhansky [Option ID = 25882]
3. Blumenbach [Option ID = 25884]
4. Livingstone [Option ID = 25881]
Correct Answer :-

• Livingstone [Option ID = 25881]

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The internal biological responses of an individual to the external environmental stimuli helping the body to maintain homeostasis is known as
1. Structural Adaptation [Option ID = 25963]
2. Behavioural adaptation [Option ID = 25964]
3. Physical adaptation [Option ID = 25962]
4. Physiological adaptation [Option ID = 25961]
Correct Answer :-

• Physiological adaptation [Option ID = 25961]
The inheritance of genes located in the mitochondrial DNA is known as
1. Extra nuclear inheritance [Option ID = 25954]
2. Polygenic inheritance [Option ID = 25955]
3. Monogenic inheritance [Option ID = 25956]
4. Nuclear inheritance [Option ID = 25953]
Correct Answer :-

• Nuclear inheritance [Option ID = 25953]
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The presence of Proto-Australoid in India was suggested in the racial classification of
1. B. S. Guha [Option ID = 25958]
2. H. H. Risley [Option ID = 25959]
3. A. C. Haddon [Option ID = 25960]
4. S. S. Sarkar [Option ID = 25957]
Correct Answer :-

• S. S. Sarkar [Option ID = 25957]
The genetic condition in a population in which one of the alternative alleles at a particular gene locus is progressively replaced by another is known as
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1. Monomorphism [Option ID = 26047]
2. Transient polymorphism [Option ID = 26045]
3. Balanced polymorphism [Option ID = 26046]
4. Dimorphism [Option ID = 26048]
Correct Answer :-
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• Transient polymorphism [Option ID = 26045]
The view of the world as consisting of a hierarchy of entities from God to humanity to animals to plants, etc. is known as
1. Theory of Mankind [Option ID = 25928]
2. Theory of Evolution [Option ID = 25927]
3. Great Chain of Development [Option ID = 25926]
4. Great Chain of Being [Option ID = 25925]
Correct Answer :-

• Great Chain of Being [Option ID = 25925]

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The process of accelerated growth in young children to compensate a period of growth stagnation due to nutrient deficit is known as
1. Secular trend [Option ID = 25973]
2. Growth spurt [Option ID = 25974]
3. Catch-up growth [Option ID = 25975]
4. Stunted growth [Option ID = 25976]
Correct Answer :-

• Secular trend [Option ID = 25973]
The definition of Blade is
1. Breadth is twice the length [Option ID = 25983]
2. Length is twice the breadth [Option ID = 25981]
3. Length is equal to breadth [Option ID = 25982]
4. None of these [Option ID = 25984]
Correct Answer :-

• Length is twice the breadth [Option ID = 25981]
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The methodological framework ' Nature-Man-Spirit Complex ' is associated with
1. S.C. Dubey [Option ID = 25945]
2. Clifford Geertz [Option ID = 25946]
3. L.P. Vidhyarthi [Option ID = 25947]
4. McKim Marriot [Option ID = 25948]
Correct Answer :-

• S.C. Dubey [Option ID = 25945]
Linkage is relationship between
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1. Two alleles on same chromosome [Option ID = 25873]
2. Two alleles on different chromosomes [Option ID = 25874]
3. Two chromosomes [Option ID = 25876]
4. Two phenotypes [Option ID = 25875]
Correct Answer :-
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Two alleles on same chromosome [Option ID = 25873]
One of the basic characteristics of human mind for Claude Levi-Strauss is that it is programmed to think in
1. geometrical oppositions [Option ID = 26006]
2. symmetrical oppositions [Option ID = 26005]
3. binary oppositions [Option ID = 26008]
4. multiple oppositions [Option ID = 26007]
Correct Answer :-

• symmetrical oppositions [Option ID = 26005]

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