Which of the Following Correctly Characterizes the Hopi Growing of Blue

question 50

Multiple Choice

Which of the following correctly characterizes the Hopi growing of blue corn?

• A)When they farm blue corn,they live their religious understanding of the world.
• B)They have mixed feelings when they grow blue corn because,though it is necessary to make traditional foods,it is associated with impurity and evil.
• C)Only women can grow blue corn,because only women possess generative earth powers.
• D)Hopi look down upon those who grow blue corn,because it represents both poverty and old-fashioned values.
• E)Hopi spend little time growing corn but much time growing beans,because corn has little religious significance.

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Definitions:

Carbon Fixation Reactions

Reduction reactions of photosynthesis in which carbon from carbon dioxide becomes incorporated into organic molecules, leading to the production of carbohydrate. See Calvin Cycle.

Reduced

A term often used in chemistry to describe the gain of electrons or decrease in oxidation state by a molecule, atom, or ion.

Oxidized

Describes a process where an atom, molecule, or ion loses electrons, often associated with a gain of oxygen or loss of hydrogen in chemical reactions.

Photophosphorylation

The production of ATP in photosynthesis.