Hemoglobin Is Made Up of Four Proteins from Two Different

question 28

Short Answer

Hemoglobin is made up of four proteins from two different gene clusters, the α-globin gene cluster and the β-globin gene cluster. The two clusters are related, having evolved from a common ancestral gene through gene duplication, based on strong similarities in which three gene characteristics?

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Definitions:

Interquartile Range

The measure of variability which is the difference between the third quartile and the first quartile in a dataset, indicating the spread of the middle 50%.

Percentiles

Values or scores below which a given percentage of observations in a group of observations fall.

Decile

A statistical measure dividing a dataset into ten equal parts, each containing 10% of the data points.

Median

The middle value in a set of data, where half the numbers are above it and half are below, when the data is arranged in ascending order.