Microbiologists Quickly Responded to the Paper by Dr

question 75

Multiple Choice

Microbiologists quickly responded to the paper by Dr.Wolfe-Simon in which she claimed to have discovered bacteria that were using arsenic to construct their DNA.One of the most challenging criticisms was that she and her colleagues

• A) were unable to account for arsenic's toxicity to other organisms.
• B) published the paper before going through the conventional peer review process.
• C) had an inadequate protocol for eliminating all phosphorus from the test tubes that contained the bacteria.
• D) lacked comparative information about closely related bacteria within the Halomonadaceae family.

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Definitions:

T-statistic

A type of statistic that is used to determine if there is a significant difference between the means of two groups.

Standard Error

A statistical measure that estimates the accuracy with which a sample distribution represents a population by using standard deviation.

T-statistic

A type of statistic used in hypothesis testing to determine if there is a significant difference between two sets of data.

Alpha

Often referred to as the level of significance in hypothesis testing, representing the threshold for rejecting the null hypothesis.