Stepfamilies Are a Type of Family in Which One or Both

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True/False

Stepfamilies are a type of family in which one or both of the adult partners have at least one child either residing with them or elsewhere.

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Definitions:

Protein-Coding Gene

A segment of DNA that contains the instructions for building a protein, with the sequence of the gene determining the amino acid sequence of the resulting protein.

CDNA Library

A collection of complementary DNA (cDNA) clones synthesized from the messenger RNA of an organism, representing a subset of the genes expressed in the tissue from which the RNA was extracted.

Introns

Non-coding sections of DNA within a gene that are removed during RNA processing before translation into proteins.

Transgenic Organisms

Organisms that have been genetically modified to contain DNA from an external species.