Point Mutations Can Occur in Any Given Cell Type, but They

question 58

Multiple Choice

Point mutations can occur in any given cell type, but they mostly affect only that one cell and cells produced by it. What cell type, if mutated, would allow the mutation to be passed on to family members for generations?

• A) glial cells, such as those that produce a myelin sheath
• B) skin cells
• C) white blood cells
• D) gametes, such as an egg or sperm

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

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

Standard Error

The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of a statistic, typically the mean, indicating the variability of an estimate.

Mean

The mean is the average of a set of numbers, calculated by adding them all together and then dividing by the count of those numbers.

Z-statistic

A statistical metric that measures the number of standard deviations a data point is from the mean, used in hypothesis testing.