The US Constitution Provided That Slaves Escaping to a Free State

question 133

Multiple Choice

The U.S. Constitution provided that slaves escaping to a free state were to

• A) become free persons.
• B) be imprisoned.
• C) be returned to their masters.
• D) remain free as long as they stayed in the North.
• E) remain free as long as they went to New York.

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Definitions:

Meselson And Stahl

Two scientists who conducted an experiment in 1958 proving that DNA replication is semi-conservative, where each of the two strands of the DNA helix serves as a template for the new strand.

Telomeres

The protective end caps of chromosomes that consist of short, simple, non-coding DNA sequences that repeat many times.

Centromeres

Centromeres are regions on a chromosome where spindle fibers attach during cell division, serving as a constriction point that holds sister chromatids together.

Telomerase Catalytic Subunit

A key protein component of telomerase, an enzyme that adds DNA sequence repeats to the telomeres of chromosomes, facilitating cellular replication.