The LacZ Gene Is Commonly Used as a Reporter Gene

question 16

True/False

The lacZ gene is commonly used as a reporter gene, because its substrate lactose is well known and easily measured.

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Contraries

In the traditional square of opposition, a pair of categorical propositions that, in virtue of their logical form, could not both be true but could both be false (A and E).

Universal

Pertaining to or affecting the whole or applicable in all cases; general.

Existential Import

A property of categorical propositions; a proposition has existential import if its truth depends on the existence of things of the kinds specified by terms in the proposition.

Contrary

Opposing or differing in nature, direction, or meaning; in logic, it refers to propositions that cannot both be true but can both be false.