What Might White Officers Accuse Their Superiors of If They

question 4

Multiple Choice

What might white officers accuse their superiors of if they were systematically bypassed for promotion in order to promote minority officers?

• A) profiling
• B) reverse discrimination
• C) exigent circumstances
• D) racial profiling

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Definitions:

Polypeptide

Polymer of many amino acids linked by peptide bonds.

Nucleotides

Organic molecules that serve as the monomers, or subunits, of nucleic acids like DNA and RNA; composed of a nitrogenous base, a five-carbon sugar, and at least one phosphate group.

Nitrogenous Bases

Organic molecules that make up the building blocks of nucleic acids, such as DNA and RNA, including adenine, cytosine, guanine, thymine, and uracil.

Gene Expression

Gene expression is the process by which information from a gene is used to synthesize functional gene products, often proteins, influencing an organism's structure and functions.