Certain Nutrients Are Considered "Essential" in the Diets of Some

question 37

Multiple Choice

Certain nutrients are considered "essential" in the diets of some animals because

• A) only those animals use those nutrients.
• B) the nutrients are subunits of important polymers.
• C) they are required for animal diets, but these animals are not able to synthesize these nutrients.
• D) the nutrients are necessary coenzymes.
• E) only certain foods contain them.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A calculation that quantifies the extent of deviation or spread within a group of data points.

Sample Variance

A measure of how datapoints in a sample are spread out from their sample mean, quantifying the extent of variation within the sample.

Kurtosis

A measure of the "tailedness" of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable; high kurtosis indicates a distribution with heavy tails and a sharp peak, while low kurtosis indicates a flatter distribution.

Histogram

This is a graphical representation of data using bars of different heights where each bar groups numbers into ranges.