What Point Was the Newspaper Motto "It Does Not Soil

question 18

Multiple Choice

What point was the newspaper motto "It does not soil the breakfast cloth" trying to make?

• A) The paper had developed special ink that wouldn't smudge.
• B) Paper carriers were instructed to avoid throwing the morning paper in mud puddles.
• C) It was going to focus on sensational and even manufactured stories.
• D) It would be an evening edition paper, and so would be read after supper.
• E) Its news stories would be less sensational and more matter-of-fact.

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Definitions:

Black Coat Color

A genetic trait resulting in a dark pigmentation of the skin, fur, or feathers in various animals, often due to the presence of melanin.

Spotted

Marked with spots; a pattern that can occur naturally in skins, coats, leaves, etc., often for camouflage or signaling.

Incomplete Dominance

Inheritance pattern in which one allele is not fully dominant over another, so the heterozygous phenotype is an intermediate blend between the two homozygous phenotypes.

Heterozygotes

Individuals having two different alleles at a locus, resulting in a variation of a genetic trait.