You Are Building a Medical Term Using the Root Hepat

question 38

Multiple Choice

You are building a medical term using the root hepat. Which of the following suffixes would require to the use of a combining vowel?

• A) -ectomy
• B) -ic
• C) -logy
• D) -itis

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Definitions:

Immigration

The action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country.

Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium

A principle that states the genetic variation in a population will remain constant from one generation to another in the absence of disturbing factors.

Heterozygotes

Individuals having two different alleles of a particular gene, resulting in a mixture of genetic traits.

Null Hypothesis

A default hypothesis that there is no significant difference or effect, used as a starting point for statistical significance testing.