A Functioning Allele on One Chromosome

question 140

Multiple Choice

A functioning allele on one chromosome

• A) can prevent a disease.
• B) can cause a protein deficiency disease.
• C) can never be inherited by the offspring.
• D) can never make up for a defective allele.
• E) is usually inherited from the mother.

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Definitions:

Percentile

A value below which a given percentage of observations in a group falls, used in statistics to provide a measure of relative standing within a set of values.

Cumulative Relative Frequency

The accumulation of the previous relative frequencies up to a certain class or point, showing the proportion of observations below a particular value in a dataset.

Dispersion

A measure of the spread of a distribution or the variability of data points around a central value.

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion of a dataset relative to its mean, indicating how spread out the data points are.