Which of the Following Is a Correct Description

question 63

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a correct description?

• A)Autosomal genetic disorders develop when a mutated chromosome is inherited from each parent.
• B)A woman is more likely to suffer from a sex-linked genetic disorder than a man.
• C)A single mutation that damages the DNA that controls cell division will cause cancer.
• D)A mutation occurring in an egg or sperm cell will be passed on to half of the cells in the developing individual.

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Definitions:

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities which can be assigned to a statistical distribution or to a mechanism, minus the number of parameters that constrain these values.

Student t Distribution

A probability distribution that is used to estimate population parameters when the sample size is small and the population variance is unknown.

Parameter v

In statistics, it can refer to a parameter associated with a specific distribution or model, often used to denote degrees of freedom in certain distributions.

Variance V(t)

A statistical measure of the dispersion of a set of data points in a data series around the mean, denoted as V(t) when considering time-series data.