MATCHING Match the Person or Term with the with the Correct

question 98

Multiple Choice

MATCHING
Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Amerigo Vespucci

• A)claimed Brazil for Portugal in 1500
• B)founded Quebec
• C)Italian who sailed for Spain in 1492
• D)Dominican priest who preached against Spanish abuses of Indians
• E)British economist who wrote The Wealth of Nations
• F)Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs
• G)sailed around southern Africa and into the Indian Ocean
• H)America was named for him
• I)first European to discover Newfoundland in 1497
• J)explored Florida
• K)led seven large naval expeditions in early 1400s
• L)developed a movable-type printing press

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Definitions:

Nucleic Acid

Complex organic substances that serve as the blueprint for genetic information in living organisms, primarily DNA andRNA, which encode the instructions for synthesizing proteins.

Carbohydrate

Compound containing carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, in the approximate ratio of C:2H:O (e.g., sugars, starch, and cellulose).

Lipid

A group of naturally occurring molecules that include fats, waxes, sterols, fat-soluble vitamins (such as vitamins A, D, E, and K), monoglycerides, diglycerides, triglycerides, phospholipids, and others.

Protein

A large, complex organic compound composed of covalently linked amino acid subunits; contains carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur.