The study of biological mechanisms that guide whether or not certain genes get expressed or activated is called ______.

A. epigenetics
B. metagenetics
C. eugenics
D. genetics


A. epigenetics

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America’s annexationist policies led to an effective insurrection in

a. Cuba. b. the Philippines. c. Puerto Rico. d. Hawaii. e. Guam.

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What was the total number of civilian victims—including Jews, gays, gypsies, and religious and political dissenters—exterminated by the Nazis?

What will be an ideal response?

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__________ argued that rational thought would not improve either the individual or the welfare of humankind; only recourse to the “will to power” will suffice.

a. George Bernard Shaw. b. Friedrich Nietzsche. c. Louis Pasteur. d. Sigmund Freud.

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According to the text, Hitler used elements of "circus showmanship, church pageantry, American advertising and [wartime propaganda]." In concrete terms this meant all the following EXCEPT an awareness that

a. the masses must be reached. b. propaganda must reduce everything to simple slogans. c. the message must be varied and original to be effective. d. mass meetings bind people together and turn despair into a sense of mission and optimism. e. slogans should be incessantly repeated "like hammer blows."

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