Consider the Following Scenario When Answering the Following Questions

question 25

Multiple Choice

Consider the following scenario when answering the following questions:
Suppose that,in an experimental setting,100 students are asked to choose between Gamble A and Gamble B,where:
Gamble A: The student will receive $5 million with a 100 percent probability.
Gamble B: The student will receive $5 million with a 51 percent probability,$10 million with a 25 percent probability,and $0 million (nothing) with a 24 percent probability.
-A risk-neutral student is

• A) likely to choose Gamble A because it has a higher expected value.
• B) likely to choose Gamble B because it has a higher expected value.
• C) likely to choose Gamble A because the student will win something (as opposed to nothing)with a higher probability.
• D) likely to choose Gamble B because the student will win something (as opposed to nothing)with a higher probability.
• E) indifferent toward Gambles A and B because they have the same expected value.

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Definitions:

Housekeeping Genes

These are genes that are constantly active in the cell to maintain basic functions and cellular metabolism.

Feedback Inhibition

A process where the end product of a metabolic pathway acts as an inhibitor of an enzyme within that pathway, regulating its own production.

Posttranslational Control

Regulation of gene expression that controls activity or functions of proteins, usually by phosphorylation or other chemical modifications of the protein. Compare with transcriptional-level control, translational-level control, and posttranscriptional control.

Translational Control

The regulation of protein synthesis in a cell by various mechanisms that act on the process of translating RNA into protein.