Identify the Statement That Is False

question 18

Multiple Choice

Identify the statement that is false.

• A) The triangular trade was enormously profitable and made up most of the colonial commerce.
• B) A trader would leave New England with a cargo of rum and sail to the Gold Coast of Africa.
• C) A trader would barter rum with African chiefs for captured African slaves.
• D) A trader would travel to the West Indies with the African slaves for molasses.
• E) A trader would travel to New England with the molasses, where it would be distilled into rum.

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Definitions:

Schwann cells

Specialized cells located in the peripheral nervous system, responsible for the formation of myelin sheaths around neurons, facilitating rapid signal transmission.

Axons

Long threadlike part of a nerve cell along which impulses are conducted from the cell body to other cells.

Myelinated axons

Nerve fibers covered in myelin, a protective sheath that speeds up the transmission of electrical signals in the nervous system.

White matter

Tissue in the brain and spinal cord made up primarily of nerve fibers and is responsible for communication between different brain regions and between the brain and the spinal cord.