In Which Organism or Organisms Would You Find the Enzyme

question 145

Multiple Choice

In which organism or organisms would you find the enzyme lysozyme serving a defensive role against invading bacteria?

• A) Only in foregut fermenters
• B) Only in the hoatzin
• C) Only in foregut fermenters and the hoatzin
• D) Only in mammals and a few closely related organisms
• E) In nearly all animals

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Definitions:

z

Often represents a standard score in statistics, indicating how many standard deviations an element is from the mean.

Standard Normal Distribution

The standard normal distribution is a normal distribution with a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1, used in probability theory to represent real-valued random variables with unknown distributions.

Mean

The average of a set of numbers, calculated by dividing the sum of these numbers by the count of the numbers.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values in the data set differ from the mean.