The Balfour Declaration

question 29

Multiple Choice

The Balfour Declaration

• A)specified the boundaries of the new state of Israel.
• B)cautiously favored a "Jewish home" in Palestine, where 90 percent of the population was Arab.
• C)assigned Syria and Lebanon to the French and Palestine and Mesopotamia (Iraq)to Britain.
• D)planned a joint Arab-Jewish state.
• E)was used by Britain to stop Arab nationalism, which threatened British interests in the area.

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Definitions:

Action Potentials

Electrical impulses that travel along the membrane of a neuron or muscle cell, enabling the transmission of signals within and between cells.

Sarcomere

The basic functional unit of striated muscle fibers, responsible for muscle contraction, delineated by Z lines.

Myosin Myofilaments

Myosin myofilaments are thick filaments found in muscle cells that, along with actin filaments, play a key role in the muscle contraction process by sliding past each other.

Z Disc

A specialized region within a muscle fiber's sarcomere that serves as the attachment point for actin filaments, marking the boundary between adjacent sarcomere units.