If You Knew the Sequence of Nucleotides Within a Gene

question 3

Multiple Choice

If you knew the sequence of nucleotides within a gene, which one of the following could you determine with the most accuracy?

• A) The tertiary structure of the protein
• B) The quaternary structure of the protein
• C) The secondary structure of the protein
• D) The primary structure of the protein
• E) Can't tell

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A statistical measure that quantifies the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of data values from the mean value.

Percentile Score

The percentage of people someone scores higher than on a scale or test; a score at the 90th percentile means someone scores higher than 90% of the people who took the scale.

Normal Distribution

A symmetrical bell-shaped distribution in which most of the data points cluster around the mean, with decreasing frequency toward the tails.

Mode

The value that appears most frequently in a given set of data, representing the most common outcome within that data set.