The Idea That Relatively Poor Nations Should Have Higher Rates

question 117

Multiple Choice

The idea that relatively poor nations should have higher rates of growth of real GDP per capita than relatively rich nations is known as the:

• A) East Asian miracle.
• B) Industrial Revolution.
• C) sustainable development hypothesis.
• D) convergence hypothesis.

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Definitions:

cAMP

Cyclic adenosine monophosphate, a second messenger important in many biological processes.

Lac Operon

A gene regulatory system found in bacteria and some other organisms that regulates the metabolism of lactose, involving an operon required for the transport and metabolism of lactose.

Cap

In molecular biology, a specially modified nucleotide on the 5’ end of eukaryotic mRNA, important for RNA stability and the initiation of translation.

Operons

Groups of genes in prokaryotes that are transcribed together and regulated by a single promoter and operator sequence, enabling coordinated expression of genes with related functions.