Which List Ranks the Organisms in Order from Smallest Genome

question 13

Multiple Choice

Which list ranks the organisms in order from smallest genome (number of base pairs of DNA) to largest genome?

• A) Human, fruit fly, E. coli bacterium
• B) E. coli bacterium, human, fruit fly
• C) E. coli bacterium, fruit fly, human
• D) fruit fly, E. coli bacterium, human
• E) fruit fly, human, E. coli bacterium

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Definitions:

Market Efficiency

A market theory that suggests that asset prices fully reflect all available information, making it impossible to consistently achieve higher returns than the overall market.

Semistrong-Form Market Efficiency

A theory stating that all publicly available information is already reflected in stock prices, thus making it impossible to achieve consistently higher returns.

Index Fund

A type of mutual fund or exchange-traded fund (ETF) designed to follow the components of a market index, such as the S&P 500, to provide broad market exposure with low operating expenses.

Serial Correlation

The association between successive observations of the same variable, such as stock returns, over time.