A Micropolitan Statistical Area Refers to

question 92

Multiple Choice

A micropolitan statistical area refers to

• A) a statistical area of 2.5 million people or more.
• B) a highly urbanized area with a centrally located population of at least 1,000,000 people.
• C) a cluster of exurbs that function as a single unit due to the proximity of their geographic locations to an urbanized area.
• D) a statistical area that has at least one urban cluster of at least 10,000 but less than 50,000 people and adjacent territory that has a high degree of social and economic integration.
• E) a statistical area of at least one urbanized area of 50,000 or more people and adjacent territory that has a high degree of social and economic integration.

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Definitions:

Genes

Genes are units of heredity made up of DNA. They carry the information responsible for the development of organisms.

Carriers

Individuals who have one copy of a gene for a recessive trait and can pass that gene to their offspring, even if they do not exhibit the trait themselves.

Recessive Genes

Genes that are not dominant and can be masked by the presence of dominant genes, requiring two copies, one from each parent, for the trait to be expressed.

Meiosis

The form of cell division in which each pair of chromosomes splits and one member of each pair moves to the new cell. As a result, each new cell has 23 chromosomes.