Dana Dolinoy and Her Colleague's Experiment, in Which Mice Became

question 35

Multiple Choice

Dana Dolinoy and her colleague's experiment, in which mice became obese and prone to cancer after a toxin introduced into the food supply changed the expression of the agouti gene, is an example of which of the following?

• A) epigenetic change
• B) how DNA determines our phenotype
• C) natural selection
• D) mutations in real-time
• E) falsification of data

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