If You Were Working for a Pharmaceutical Company as Part

question 34

Multiple Choice

If you were working for a pharmaceutical company as part of a drug discovery team, which of these enzyme inhibitors would you suggest as a productive avenue for drug development?

• A) a drug to treat high blood pressure that reversibly inhibits an enzyme catalyzing production of a chemical that causes blood vessels to contract
• B) a drug to treat diabetes that irreversibly inhibits an enzyme in the metabolic pathway to synthesize glucose
• C) a compound that acts as a competitive inhibitor for a digestive enzyme produced only in the presence of certain foods
• D) a compound that inhibits enzymes by significantly changing the pH throughout the body

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Definitions:

Nominal Variable

A nominal variable is a type of categorical variable for which there is no natural ordering among the categories.

Nominal Data

Data categorized into discrete groups or categories without any natural order or ranking among them, such as gender or race.

Nominal Random Variable

A type of random variable that categorizes data without a natural order or ranking among the categories.

Interval Random Variable

This term seems incorrect or unconventional in this context; an "interval variable" is a type of numerical data that’s measured along a scale, and "random variable" pertains to a different statistical concept. NO.