Viruses Are Not Considered Alive

question 25

Multiple Choice

Viruses are not considered alive.Which of the following characteristics of living things do they lack?

• A) Living things reproduce.
• B) Living things have an evolutionary history.
• C) Living things grow and develop.

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Definitions:

Tukey's Method

A statistical test to identify outliers by comparing the spread of data sets.

Multiple Comparison Methods

Statistical procedures used to determine significant differences among group means in a dataset, where several groups are compared.

F-test

A statistical test used to compare two variances to ascertain if they come from the same population.

Randomized Block Experiment

A design of experiment in which subjects are blocked into groups to control for variability, and then randomly assigned to treatments within each block.