You Create a Recombinant DNA Molecule That Fuses the Coding

question 21

Multiple Choice

You create a recombinant DNA molecule that fuses the coding sequence of green fluorescent protein to the regulatory DNA sequences that control the expression of your favorite genes.Which of the following pieces of information can you NOT gain by examining the expression of this reporter gene?

• A)the tissue where the protein encoded by this gene is expressed
• B)the cell in which the protein encoded by this gene is expressed
• C)the specific location within the cell of the protein encoded by this gene
• D)when, during an organism's development, this gene is expressed

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Definitions:

Alpha (α)

The threshold of significance in a statistical test; the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is true, often set at 0.05 or 5%.

Population Parameter

A value that represents a characteristic of an entire population, such as its mean or standard deviation.

Statistic

A statistic is a single measure or value that is derived from a sample of data, used to estimate or infer properties of the population from which the sample was drawn.

Alpha Value

A specified threshold in hypothesis testing that represents the maximum probability of wrongly rejecting the null hypothesis.