The Taika Reforms, Based Upon the Chinese Model, Were Intended

question 30

True/False

The Taika reforms, based upon the Chinese model, were intended to make the Japanese government operate more efficiently.

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Crystallins

Water-soluble proteins found in the lens of the eye which are responsible for maintaining lens transparency and refractive properties.

Gene Recruitment

The evolutionary process by which a gene acquires a new function.

Complex Adaptation

A complex adaptation is a suite of coexpressed traits that together experience selection for a common function. Phenotypes are considered complex when they are influenced by many environmental and genetic factors and when multiple components must be expressed together for the trait to function.