Shifting cultivation
A. cannot support permanent villages.
B. relies extensively on chemical fertilizers.
C. requires cultivators to let exhausted plots of land lie fallow for several years.
D. typically involves the use of draft animals.
E. requires irrigation.
Answer: C
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a. two copies of the recessive allele. b. two copies of the dominant allele. c. an autosomal trisomy. d. a recessive allele on the X chromosome only. e. a recessive allele on the Y chromosome only.
What type of mutation occurs when a single base changes during DNA replication?
a. chromosomal mutation b. point mutation c. RNA mutation d. random mutation
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