A Positive Sense of Ethnic Identity

question 80

Multiple Choice

A positive sense of ethnic identity

• A)is seldom found in African-American adolescents.
• B)can protect an adolescent from damaging effects of racial prejudice.
• C)tends to be completed by elementary school.
• D)has little to do with parental behavior.

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Definitions:

DNA Template

A strand of DNA that serves as a guide for the synthesis of complementary RNA molecules during transcription.

Transcription

The process by which the information in a strand of DNA is copied into a new molecule of messenger RNA (mRNA).

Ribosomal Subunit

Components of the ribosome that work together in protein synthesis, with the smaller subunit binding to mRNA and the larger subunit binding tRNAs and catalyzing peptide bond formation.

Initiator tRNA

The transfer RNA that starts the translation process in protein synthesis by binding to the start codon on the mRNA with its anticodon.