A Series of Clones That Contain Overlapping Pieces of a Chromosome

question 33

Multiple Choice

A series of clones that contain overlapping pieces of a chromosome are called a ________.

• A) contig
• B) artificial chromosome
• C) cosmid
• D) positional clone
• E) transposable element

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Definitions:

Histogram

A graphical representation of data that groups numbers into ranges, showing the frequency of data within each range via bars.

Trimmed Mean

A method of averaging that removes a specified percentage of the largest and smallest values before calculating the mean, often used to reduce the effect of outliers.

Bootstrap Standard Error

A measure of the variability or dispersion of a statistic's sampling distribution, estimated using the bootstrap resampling method.

Critical Value

A threshold value in hypothesis testing that defines the boundary of the rejection region; values beyond this indicate statistical significance.