When Rendering Decisions Involving the 4th Amendment, as It Applies

question 3

Multiple Choice

When rendering decisions involving the 4th Amendment, as it applies to drug testing,courts have based their decisions on all of the following factors except:

• A) reasonable suspicion of drug use
• B) adverse impact
• C) safety and trust of the public
• D) the opportunity to retest a specimen

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Definitions:

Meselson And Stahl

Two scientists who conducted an experiment in 1958 proving that DNA replication is semi-conservative, where each of the two strands of the DNA helix serves as a template for the new strand.

Telomeres

The protective end caps of chromosomes that consist of short, simple, non-coding DNA sequences that repeat many times.

Centromeres

Centromeres are regions on a chromosome where spindle fibers attach during cell division, serving as a constriction point that holds sister chromatids together.

Telomerase Catalytic Subunit

A key protein component of telomerase, an enzyme that adds DNA sequence repeats to the telomeres of chromosomes, facilitating cellular replication.