In Most Individuals with Inherited Colon Cancer Susceptibility Who Do

question 3

Multiple Choice

In most individuals with inherited colon cancer susceptibility who do not have excessive numbers of benign and premalignant polyps, the cancer susceptibility is caused by a heterozygous defect in a gene for:

• A)Postreplication mismatch repair.
• B)Genome-wide nucleotide excision repair.
• C)The lipid phosphatase PTEN.
• D)The antiapoptotic protein Bcl2.
• E)The transcriptional regulator p53.

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Definitions:

Social Movement

A collective effort by a large group of people to achieve a specific goal, often related to social change.

Frame Alignment

In social movement theory, it is the process of making individual and social movement frames more congruent and mutually supportive to foster mobilization.

Resource Mobilization

A theory referring to the process by which social movements gather resources, such as money, labor, and support, to achieve their goals.

Political Opportunity

The presence of favorable conditions or circumstances that enable social movements or political action to emerge and succeed.