Andrea Has Been Experiencing Vertigo and Problems with Balance for Several

question 26

Multiple Choice

Andrea has been experiencing vertigo and problems with balance for several months now.She is otherwise healthy and has no problems with controlling her limbs.You tell Andrea she may want to go to see a neurologist because she might have:

• A) cerebellar ataxia.
• B) Ménieré disease.
• C) an ear infection.
• D) Parkinson disease.

---

Definitions:

Operon

In prokaryotes, a group of structural genes that are coordinately controlled and transcribed as a single message, plus their adjacent regulatory elements.

Protein Binding

The interaction between a protein and another molecule, which could be another protein, a small molecule, or DNA, critical for many biological processes.

cAMP Levels

Concentrations of cyclic adenosine monophosphate, a secondary messenger important in many biological processes including signal transduction and intracellular communication.

CAP

A regulatory feature in some RNA molecules or a protein that can influence gene expression; context-dependent.