Which of the Following Statements About Histone Modifications Is False

question 56

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about histone modifications is false?

• A) They cause some genes to be transcriptionally activated.
• B) They can result in the repression of gene transcription.
• C) They are inherited from parental cells in a Mendelian fashion.
• D) They cause Barr bodies to form.
• E) All of the above are false.

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Definitions:

Variability

A measure of how spread out or dispersed the values in a dataset are.

Bimodal

Bimodal describes a distribution having two different modes, which are the most frequently occurring data points in a dataset.

Distribution

The way in which values are spread or distributed across a range in a dataset.

Measure of Variability

A measure of variability is a summary statistic that represents the amount of dispersion in a dataset, examples include range, variance, and standard deviation.