The Union's First Confiscation Act, Issued in August 1861, Declared

question 33

True/False

The Union's first Confiscation Act, issued in August 1861, declared that any slaves used for military purposes would be freed if they fell into Union hands.

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Coenocytes

A type of cell that contains multiple nuclei within a shared cytoplasm, without dividing into individual cells.

Dikaryotic

Condition of having two nuclei per cell (i.e., n + n), characteristic of certain fungal hyphae. Compare with monokaryotic.

Polykaryotic

A cellular condition in which an organism has multiple nuclei within a single cell membrane.

Yeast

A unicellular fungus (usually an ascomycete) that reproduces asexually by budding or fission, and sexually by ascospores.