the west into the Pyrenees in the east. This
area is called Euskal Herria (comprising
seven provinces, historically: Araba, Bizkaia,
Gipuzkoa, and Navarra on the Spanish side;
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Questions for thought and discussion
Listen to a short passage carefully and then answer the following questions .
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Background information
• Luca Cavalli-Sforza: Cavalli-Sforza, born
Laburdi, Zuberoa, and Behe-Nafarroa on the
French side). There are about 660,000,
according to the 1991 census. Fewer than
80,000 of these are on the French side of the
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The flow of genetic information is from DNA to RNA to Protein. Each protein is a linear polymer of a specific sequence of 20 different amino acids. DNA is also a linear polymer comprised of 4 types of nucleotides. The sequence of amino acids in each protein is encoded by a segment of DNA called a gene. Three consecutive nucleotides in a gene encode a single amino acid in the corresponding protein. The genetic code is universal among all living things.