Why Have Researchers Focused on a Particular Species of Jellyfish

question 63

Multiple Choice

Why have researchers focused on a particular species of jellyfish when studying malaria?

• A) The jellyfish stings have been discovered to treat malaria symptoms.
• B) A glowing gene of the jellyfish can be used as a marker to sterilize mosquitoes that transmit malaria.
• C) A glowing gene of the jellyfish can be used to make malaria-carrying mosquitoes glow in the dark.
• D) A gene of the jellyfish can produce a protein that essentially kills off the malaria virus.
• E) The jellyfish skin coating is an effective malaria mosquito repellant when applied to a mosquito net.

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Definitions:

Degrees Of Freedom

Degrees of freedom are the number of values in a final calculation of a statistic that are free to vary, often linked to the sample size.

Degrees Of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities that can vary in the analysis without violating any constraint.

Sample Size

The number of observations or data points collected in a study or used in a statistical analysis, crucial for the validity and reliability of results.

T-Values

Statistics used in T-tests that compare the means of two groups. They indicate how many standard deviations an observed sample mean is from the null hypothesis mean.