You Are Interested in Studying a Receptor and Decide to Make

question 5

Multiple Choice

You are interested in studying a receptor and decide to make a knockout mouse. However, you notice severe developmental defects that result in embryonic lethality in this receptor knockout. Which developmental process is most likely affected when you disrupt a receptor on the cell surface, disrupting its ability to receive a signal and initiate a transduction pathway?

• A) cell proliferation
• B) cell-cell interactions
• C) cell differentiation
• D) cell movement
• E) apoptosis

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Definitions:

Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test

A statistical test that does not assume a specific distribution, designed to compare two related samples, matched pairs, or repeated measurements from the same sample.

Nonzero Differences

Instances where there is a measurable or observable difference between two entities or measurements, not equal to zero.

Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test

Employing no assumptions about data parameters, this statistical test is used for examining whether the population mean ranks differ across two related samples, matched samples, or repeated tests on the same individual sample.

Paired Experiment

A study design where participants are matched in pairs and each pair is treated differently to investigate the effects of the treatment.