A Nutrient Needed by the Body and That Must Be

question 101

Multiple Choice

A nutrient needed by the body and that must be supplied by foods is termed a(n)

• A)neutraceutical.
• B)metabolic unit.
• C)organic nutrient.
• D)essential nutrient.

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Definitions:

Time to Coalescence

The period it takes for all alleles of a gene in a population to trace back to a single ancestral allele.

Maximum Likelihood

The maximum likelihood is an approach used to estimate parameter values for a statistical model. Maximum likelihood and the similar Bayesian method are used in phylogeny reconstruction to find the tree topologies that are most likely, given a precise model for molecular evolution and a particular data set.

Distance Methods

A set of techniques used in molecular biology and phylogenetics to estimate genetic differences and infer evolutionary relationships between species based on genetic data.