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.

Analyze the graphical representation of profit maximization and loss minimization in a perfectly competitive market.

Understand the characteristics of perfect competition.

Differentiate between short-run and long-run outcomes in perfect competition.

Identify the conditions for profit maximization in perfect competition.