A Scientist Discovers a New Virus Associated with a Cancer

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Essay

A scientist discovers a new virus associated with a cancer. She is able to culture it in the laboratory and begins to analyze it. What features will help her determine the virus' classification? How does this help her understand the virus' mechanism for causing cancer?

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Definitions:

Automobile

A wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor.

Planning Fallacy

The tendency to underestimate the time, costs, and risks of future actions while overestimating the benefits, leading to poor planning and time management.

Underestimating

The act of judging something to be of lower quantity, value, or importance than it actually is.

Project

A planned set of interrelated tasks to be executed over a fixed period and within certain costs and other limitations.