Match Each Description with the Item Below

question 26

Multiple Choice

Match each description with the item below.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer

• A)was an American admiral in the Pacific
• B)was secretary of war during the Second World War
• C)was Democratic presidential candidate in 1940
• D)ordered the use of atomic bombs against Japan
• E)directed the construction of atomic bombs
• F)led the invasion of the Philippines during the Second World War
• G)planned the invasion of Normandy
• H)drew up the Atlantic Charter with an American president
• I)was the senator who led the committee that coined the term "merchants of death"
• J)became the leader of the Soviet Union following Vladimir Lenin's death

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Definitions:

Polygenic Traits

Characteristics or traits that are influenced by multiple genes rather than a single gene, contributing to the phenotype's complexity.

Genes

Biological units of heredity located in our cells that dictate physical and some behavioral traits.

Reduction Division

Reduction division is another term for meiosis, a process in which a parent cell divides into four cells with half the chromosome number of the original cell, crucial for sexual reproduction.

Meiosis

A process of cell division that results in four daughter cells each with half the number of chromosomes of the parent cell, essential for sexual reproduction.