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Cyanide Is a Chemical Used to Dissolve Gold and Is

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Cyanide is a chemical used to dissolve gold and is harmful to the environment and organisms living there.A couple of biochemists came up with the idea of using the bacteria in the genus Pseudomonas to break down the cyanide used by a gold mining company.Which term refers to this use of bacteria?


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Explanatory Variable

A variable in a statistical model that is used to explain variations in the dependent variable.

Error Sum Of Squares

A measure in statistics of the discrepancy between the data and an estimation model.

Standard Error

A measure of the accuracy with which a sample distribution represents a population by quantifying the variability of the sampling distribution.

Coefficient Of Determination

A measure that represents the proportion of the variance in the dependent variable that is predictable from the independent variable(s).

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