Not a Mechanism of Horizontal Gene Transfer

question 10

Multiple Choice

Not a mechanism of horizontal gene transfer

• A) Transformation
• B) Conjugation
• C) Transduction
• D) Translation

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Z Score

A statistical measurement that describes a value's relationship to the mean of a group of values, expressed in standard deviations.

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of numbers, calculated by dividing the sum of the numbers by the count of numbers in the set.

T Score

A type of standardized score that indicates how many standard deviations an element is from the mean.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or spread in a set of data; it quantifies how much the individual data points differ from the mean value.