Questões de Língua Inglesa do ano 2009

Acording to the ideas expressed in the text above, judge the following items.

An ecological approach to economy will transform the whole system of capitalist production.

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Acording to the ideas expressed in the text above, judge the following items.

Nature Inc. may be a system overhaul to establish monetary value on ecosystem services.

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Acording to the ideas expressed in the text above, judge the following items.

Next century climate change recovery will assuredly mount up ten times withal of the World GDP.

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Acording to the ideas expressed in the text above, judge the following items.

While it is conceivable to place an accurate monetary amount on ecosystem services, it stimulates market-based conservation and financial values.

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In relation to the text above, judge the items from 11 through 20.

In mad cow disease, misfolded proteins prions punch holes in the brain causing the tissue to develop a spongy architecture eventually destroying it.

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In relation to the text above, judge the items from 11 through 20.

The abnormal protein builds up in the brain, forming clumps that damage or annihilate neurons.

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In relation to the text above, judge the items from 11 through 20.

The lack of healthy cells creates crevices inside the brain that produce the mental and behaviourial features of prior diseases.

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In relation to the text above, judge the items from 11 through 20.

Mutations in the PRNP gene cause prion disease.

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In relation to the text above, judge the items from 11 through 20.

In the title, the "new twist" refers to a feature of pathogenesis in the prion disease that consists of the conversion of a normal pre-existing molecule into a pathogenic abnormally structured form rather than replication of an agent.

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In relation to the text above, judge the items from 11 through 20.

All known prion diseases, collectively called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies are untreatable and fatal.

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