The Term ____ Refers to a Negative Attitude or Feeling

question 103

Multiple Choice

The term ____ refers to a negative attitude or feeling toward an individual based solely on that individual's membership in a certain group.

• A)prejudice
• B)discrimination
• C)stereotype
• D)racism

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Definitions:

Recessive Alleles

Gene variants that can be masked by dominant alleles and are expressed only when two copies are present.

Dominant Alleles

Dominant alleles are versions of genes that produce a dominant trait which will express itself in the phenotype, even when only one copy is present.

Monozygotic Twins

Identical twins that originate from a single fertilized egg, splitting and developing into two embryos.

Dizygotic Twins

Also known as fraternal twins, are two siblings born at the same time as a result of two different eggs being fertilized by two different sperm cells, sharing 50% of their DNA.