A New Women's Professional Basketball Team Uses a Composite Score

question 64

Multiple Choice

A new women's professional basketball team uses a composite score on a series of tests to evaluate 100 prospective players.For the 25 openings on the team,a process of top-down selection is used to award team positions.Accordingly,

• A) the least qualified player still may be hired.
• B) the lowest scorer is in the first position to be hired.
• C) the highest scorer is in the first position to be hired.
• D) the tallest scorer is in the first position to be hired.

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Definitions:

Ubiquitin

A small eukaryotic regulatory polypeptide that can be covalently bonded to proteins, targeting the protein for destruction and recycling. Also used to regulate protein activities.

Repressor Proteins

Proteins that bind to specific sequences of DNA to inhibit the transcription of genes, playing a critical role in gene regulation.

Transcription

The method through which the data contained in a DNA strand is replicated into a fresh molecule of messenger RNA (mRNA).

Auxin

A class of plant hormones that play crucial roles in the coordination of many growth and behavioral processes in the plant's life cycle.