You Wish to Use MRNA Profiles to Examine Gene Expression

question 21

Multiple Choice

You wish to use mRNA profiles to examine gene expression in cells during times of stress.You are investigating the cell's

• A)spliceosome.
• B)genome.
• C)proteome.
• D)transcriptome.
• E)BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool).

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Definitions:

Z-scores

Standardized scores that measure the distance of a score from the mean, indicating how many standard deviations an element is from the mean.

Standard Normal Distribution

A probability distribution that has a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.

Greater Than

A mathematical expression indicating that one quantity is larger than another.

Z-scores

Standardized scores that measure how many standard deviations a data point is from the mean, used for comparison across different data sets or variables.