The fiEld of Genomics Refers to _______

question 75

Multiple Choice

The field of genomics refers to _______.

• A) the study of an organism's plasmids
• B) the study of cellular, but not viral, genomes
• C) the study of chromosomal DNA
• D) the study of an organism's complete genome, including plasmid, mitochondrial, and chloroplast DNA

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Definitions:

Bootstrap Confidence Interval

A type of confidence interval calculated by resampling a dataset with replacement and estimating the desired statistic multiple times.

Bias

In statistics and research, bias refers to a systematic error that leads to incorrect results by favoring certain outcomes over others unintentionally.

Normal

Pertaining to or describing a type of continuous probability distribution for a real-valued random variable that has a symmetrical, bell-shaped curve known as the normal distribution.

Bootstrap Distribution

A resampling method used in statistics to estimate the distribution of a statistic by repeatedly sampling with replacement from the original data.