The Following Sentences Form a Paragraph

question 50

Multiple Choice

The following sentences form a paragraph. Proofread them for inconsistent tense and faulty parallelism. Identify the type of each error in each sentence, or select "correct" if the sentence is free of errors.
-As many as seven thousand people died in the flash flood, and there were thousands more left homeless.

• A) correct
• B) inconsistent tense
• C) faulty parallelism

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Definitions:

Cyclic AMP

A secondary messenger important in many biological processes, formed from ATP by the action of adenylyl cyclase.

Second Messenger

A substance (e.g., cyclic AMP or calcium ions) that relays a message from a signaling molecule (the first messenger) bound to a cell-surface receptor; leads to some change in the cell.

Protein Kinase A

An enzyme that transfers phosphate groups from ATP to specific proteins, playing a key role in the regulation of cellular processes.

Tyrosine Kinases

A family of enzymes that catalyze the transfer of a phosphate group from ATP to a tyrosine residue in a protein, playing key roles in signal transduction pathways.