Which of the Following Is an Example of a Dichotomous

question 16

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of a dichotomous closed-ended question?

• A) Do you drive a car? Yes or No
• B) What type of car do you drive?____
• C) I experience road rage… __Never____ Sometimes _____Always
• D) I drive ___miles a day.

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Definitions:

Deleterious Allele

A genetic variant that tends to have a negative effect on the fitness or survival of an organism.

Fixed Genetic Locus

A specific location on a chromosome where the genetic variation has become identical across all members of a population due to evolutionary processes.

Allele

A variant of a gene that occurs due to mutation and is located at an identical location on a chromosome, representing one of two or more possible versions.

Genetic Drift

A mechanism of evolution that results in the change of the frequency of alleles in a population due to random sampling of organisms.