Conservatives Such as Burke Believed All the Following to Be

question 55

Multiple Choice

Conservatives such as Burke believed all the following to be true EXCEPT

• A) human nature and social relations are too complex to be subject to social engineering.
• B) the Enlightenment and revolutionaries had reduced people to abstractions divorced from their historical environment.
• C) individuals have only limited intelligence and must rely on "the general bank and capital of nations and of the ages."
• D) beneficial institutions need not be rational or intellectually elegant.
• E) society is a complex mechanism that should be overhauled.

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Definitions:

ATP

Adenosine triphosphate, the primary energy carrier in all living organisms, providing the energy needed for many cellular processes.

Polypeptide Chains

Long chains of amino acids linked by peptide bonds, which fold into specific three-dimensional shapes to form proteins.

Ribosome

A cellular organelle that functions as the site of protein synthesis, reading RNA sequences to assemble amino acids into proteins.

Golgi Body

Membrane-enclosed organelle that modifies proteins and lipids, then sorts the finished products into vesicles. Shaped like a stack of pancakes.