If You Are Constructing a Confidence Interval for a Single

question 53

Multiple Choice

If you are constructing a confidence interval for a single mean, the confidence interval will with a decrease in the sample size.

• A) decrease
• B) increase
• C) stay the same
• D) increase or decrease, depending on the sample data

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Definitions:

Homologous Chromosomes

Pairs of chromosomes in a diploid organism that are similar in shape, size, and gene content, one inherited from each parent.

Alleles

Forms of a gene with slightly different DNA sequences; may encode different versions of the gene’s product.

Homozygous

Describing an organism that has two identical alleles for a particular trait.

Heterozygous

A genetic condition where an individual has two different alleles at a gene locus.