The Minamata disease, a disease which produced severe nervous disorders and birth defects, was traced to the fact that the Chisso Chemical Company dumped mercury into a bay where Japanese villagers fished. The villagers of Minamata, where the company was located, refused to sue the chemical company. However, the residents of Niigata, a fishing village forty miles up the river from the factory, sued the chemical company. Which of the following explanations flows from the conflict paradigm?

Which of these is true of the cytoplasm of an unfertilized egg? a. it is an unevenly distributed mixture of mrna, proteins, organelles, and other substances. b. it does not contain substances that are important in directing development. c. these substances are supplied by the sperm. d. it does not contain substances that are important in directing development. e. development is directed solely by the surrounding cells. f. it is a homogeneous mixture of mrna, proteins, organelles, and other substances. g. it does not contain substances that are important in directing development. h. these substances are produced by the dna of the fertilized zygote.