In Late Nineteenth-Century Debates on American Immigration,many Scholars and Government

question 18

Multiple Choice

In late nineteenth-century debates on American immigration,many scholars and government officials privileged immigrants from northern Europe over those from southern Europe,such as Italians and Greeks,because the officials felt these southern people were a separate and inferior biological race with primitive ways.This is an example of

• A) elitism.
• B) ethnocentrism.
• C) genocide.
• D) ethnocide.

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Definitions:

Hemoglobin

A protein in red blood cells responsible for transporting oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body.

Mutation

A change in the DNA sequence within an organism's gene or chromosome, leading to diversity within species and populations.

Gene

A segment of DNA that serves as a unit of hereditary information; includes a transcribable DNA sequence (plus associated sequences regulating its transcription) that yields a protein or RNA product with a specific function.

Wobble Hypothesis

Describes the ability of some tRNA anticodons to associate with more than one mRNA codon; in these cases the 5' base of the anticodon is capable of forming hydrogen bonds with more than one kind of base in the 3' position of the codon.