The Book One Hundred Years of Solitude Explores

question 109

Multiple Choice

The book One Hundred Years of Solitude explores

• A) the transformation of a small town and the arrival of a U.S. banana company.
• B) the Cuban Revolution and rise of Fidel Castro.
• C) the inhumanity of war in Argentina.
• D) the dictatorship of Fulgencio Trujillo in Dominican Republic.
• E) the environmental degradation of the Brazilian rainforest.

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Definitions:

Calvin Cycle

A set of biochemical reactions that take place in the stroma of chloroplasts in photosynthetic organisms, resulting in the conversion of carbon dioxide and other compounds into glucose.

Thylakoid Membrane

Membranous sacs located within the chloroplasts of plants, sites of the light-dependent reactions of photosynthesis.

Carbohydrate Molecules

Organic compounds consisting of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms, serving as a major energy source and structural component of living organisms.

Stroma

The supportive tissue framework of an organ, or the dense fluid within chloroplasts where the Calvin cycle occurs in photosynthesis.