In Historical Perspective,the Enlightenment

question 19

Multiple Choice

In historical perspective,the Enlightenment

• A) culminated the evolution away from the medieval worldview begun by the Renaissance.
• B) strongly contributed to the democratic revolutions that followed.
• C) developed Western ideals of human rights, religious tolerance, and progress.
• D) was a direct outgrowth of the Scientific Revolution.
• E) all of the above

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Definitions:

Genome

Originally, all the genetic material in a cell or individual organism. The term is used in more than one way depending on context (e.g., an organism’s haploid genome is all the DNA contained in one haploid set of its chromosomes, and its mitochondrial genome is all the DNA in a mitochondrion). See Human Genome.

Chromosomal DNA

Chromosomal DNA is the DNA that constitutes the chromosomes of a cell, encoding most of the genetic information needed for the organism's development, functioning, and reproduction.

Human Genome Project

Initiative completed in 2003 to determine the sequence of bases for a human haploid reference genome of more than 3 billion nucleotide base pairs.

Bt Corn

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