With the Sequence of the Gene-Coding Regions of the Human

question 22

Multiple Choice

With the sequence of the gene-coding regions of the human genome in hand and the development of newer sequencing methods,scientists ____.

• A) now know that the types of mutations present in all cancers are very similar
• B) can now sequence and analyze the protein-coding genes in cancer cells
• C) are still unable to systematically identify all the mutations present in a cancer cell
• D) found that the number of mutational events that occur during the transition from normal to malignant cells is much smaller than previously thought
• E) found that most tumors had at least 100 mutations in common with any other tumor, emphasizing the common origin of cancer

Understand the role and impact of biomedical therapies in treating psychological disorders.

Recognize the principles and effectiveness of behavior therapy and its underlying assumptions.

Understand the concept of bootstrapping as a resampling technique to estimate the distribution of a statistic from a sample.

Compute and interpret the bootstrap estimate of bias and standard error for sample statistics.

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