According to the Text, Which of the Following Is Not

question 30

Multiple Choice

According to the text, which of the following is not considered a possible reason for the decline in our political system?

• A) the decline of the United States as an economic superpower
• B) partisan gridlock that holds up policies moving through it
• C) weak candidates for high office
• D) the death of capitalism
• E) the rights of certain racial and ethnic groups being slowly taken away

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Definitions:

Translation

The process in molecular biology whereby the genetic code carried by mRNA is decoded to produce the specific sequence of amino acids in a polypeptide chain.

Messenger RNA

A type of RNA that carries genetic information from DNA to the ribosome, where proteins are synthesized.

Transcribed

The process by which a segment of DNA is copied into RNA by the enzyme RNA polymerase.

Exons

Regions within a gene that are kept after splicing and translated into protein.