Education in the Colonies Was

question 79

Multiple Choice

Education in the colonies was:

• A) most advanced in the South
• B) primarily intended for young women
• C) most advanced in frontier regions
• D) hampered in New England by the Puritans' anti-intellectual tradition
• E) usually seen as the responsibility of family and church

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Definitions:

Carriers

Individuals who have one copy of a gene for a recessive trait and can pass that gene to their offspring, even if they do not exhibit the trait themselves.

Recessive Genes

Genes that are not dominant and can be masked by the presence of dominant genes, requiring two copies, one from each parent, for the trait to be expressed.

Meiosis

The form of cell division in which each pair of chromosomes splits and one member of each pair moves to the new cell. As a result, each new cell has 23 chromosomes.

Sex Chromosomes

Chromosomes that determine an individual's biological sex, typically presented as XX for females and XY for males in humans, affecting the development of sexual characteristics.