Imagine That an Upward-Sloping Line Is Depicted in a Graph

question 20

Multiple Choice

Imagine that an upward-sloping line is depicted in a graph with income per week on the y-axis and hours worked per week on the x-axis.The slope of the line in the graph depicts the

• A) minimum wage of the worker.
• B) hourly wage of the worker.
• C) total monthly income of the worker.
• D) increase in income earned by the worker for every year of service.

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Definitions:

RNAi

A biological process in which RNA molecules inhibit gene expression or translation by neutralizing targeted mRNA molecules.

mRNA Strand

A single-stranded molecule in cells that carries codes from the DNA in the nucleus to sites of protein synthesis in the cytoplasm.

Ribosome

Site of protein synthesis in a cell; composed of proteins and ribosomal RNA (rRNA).

Translation

During gene expression, the process whereby ribosomes use the sequence of codons in mRNA to produce a polypeptide with a particular sequence of amino acids.