All of the Following Are True of Alleles,EXCEPT

question 45

Multiple Choice

All of the following are true of alleles,EXCEPT

• A) they vary in nucleotide sequence.
• B) when alleles of a gene differ,the organism is said to be homozygous.
• C) for some diseases,if a person has only one disease allele,they may be healthy.
• D) there may be many different alleles in the population.
• E) pairs of alleles reside on homologous chromosomes.

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Definitions:

Meta-Analysis

A statistical method for combining the results of multiple studies on a topic to integrate findings and draw conclusions.

Chi-square Distribution

A probability distribution that describes the distribution of the sum of the squares of k independent standard normal random variables.

Positive Values

Numbers greater than zero.

Degree of Freedom

The number of independent ways by which a dynamic system can move without violating any constraint applied on it, often used in statistics to determine the number of values in the final calculation of a statistic that are free to vary.