The Residence Pattern After Marriage Found in Societies Where Inheritance

question 50

Multiple Choice

The residence pattern after marriage found in societies where inheritance follows matrilineal descent and in which men hold wealth, property, and social status is called __________.

• A) patrilocal
• B) avunculocal
• C) uxorilocal
• D) virilocal

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Definitions:

Ribosomes

Cellular structures responsible for protein synthesis.

microRNAs

Small non-coding RNA molecules that play a key role in regulating gene expression by binding to and inhibiting specific mRNA molecules.

mRNA

Messenger RNA, a type of RNA that conveys genetic information from DNA to the ribosome, where it specifies the amino acid sequence of the protein products of gene expression.

RNA Polymerase

An enzyme that synthesizes RNA from a DNA template during the process of transcription.