Government-Provided Foreign Aid to Developing Countries Has

question 27

Multiple Choice

Government-provided foreign aid to developing countries has:

• A) averaged about 1 percent of the IACs' GDP each year.
• B) increased sharply since 1995.
• C) dwarfed the size of foreign direct investment to the DVCs in recent years.
• D) declined in the late 1990s but increased from 2000 to 2008.

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Definitions:

Blending Inheritance

An outdated theory of heredity proposing that the traits of offspring are a uniform blend of the parents' traits.

Dominant Alleles

Alleles that mask the effect of other alleles for the same gene in heterozygous individuals, determining the phenotype.

Recessive Alleles

Genetic variations that must be present in two copies (homozygous) to express a trait, as opposed to dominant alleles that require only one copy.

Epistasis

An interaction between genes where the presence or absence of alleles of one gene influences the expression of another gene.