Please Read the Following Scenario to Answer the Following Question(s)

question 8

Multiple Choice

Please read the following scenario to answer the following question(s) .
While working with cultured mouse cells, a researcher unknowingly treated the cells with a mutagen that causes the deletion or insertion of individual nucleotides in DNA. Subsequently, she isolated and cultured a single cell from this group. She noticed that the progeny of this cell were not producing a certain protein and that this affected their survival.
-The mutation that resulted from her accident was probably ______.

• A) an amino acid substitution
• B) one that changed the triplet grouping of the genetic message
• C) an error in translation
• D) a loss in regulation of gene expression

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Definitions:

Step-fixed Costs

Costs that remain constant for a certain level of production or activity, but can change to a different fixed amount when a certain threshold is crossed.

Variable Costs

Costs that vary directly with the level of production or output.

Absorption Costing

An accounting method that includes all manufacturing costs—direct materials, labor, and both variable and fixed overhead—as part of the cost of a finished product.

Absorption Costing

An accounting method that includes all manufacturing costs - direct materials, direct labor, and both variable and fixed overheads - in the cost of a product.