Globalization Has Produced Unprecedented Opportunities for the Creation of Wealth

question 43

Multiple Choice

Globalization has produced unprecedented opportunities for the creation of wealth:

• A) which has significantly reduced widespread poverty worldwide.
• B) but it has also produced widespread poverty worldwide.
• C) which has mostly benefited countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
• D) which has decreased poverty globally, with the exception of China.
• E) which has all but eliminated global poverty.

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Definitions:

Dendrite

A branched extension of a neuron that receives impulses from other cells and transmits them to the cell body.

Axon

The long, slender projection of a neuron that conducts electrical impulses away from the neuron's cell body towards other neurons or muscles.

Nodes of Ranvier

Gaps in the myelin sheath along a nerve fiber, where the axonal membrane is exposed to the extracellular space, facilitating rapid signal transmission.

Myelinated Axons

Axons that are covered with myelin, a fatty substance that speeds up the transmission of nerve impulses.