Which of the following techniques would be useful in controlling cancer once it has formed an abnormal growth?
A. Prevent mutations from occurring in the cancer cells.
B. Treat the cancer with drugs or other therapies that selectively kill dividing cells.
C. Increase the mutation rate to kill the cancer cells.
D. Increase the rate of mitosis in the cancer cells.
B. Treat the cancer with drugs or other therapies that selectively kill dividing cells.
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In the following pedigree, the indicated trait is most likely caused by which type of allele?
A) autosomal recessive
B) autosomal dominant
C) X-linked recessive
D) X-linked dominant
E) Y-linked
Which of the following occur in telophase I of meiosis?
a. nuclear envelope formation b. pairing of homologues c. formation of a bipolar spindle d. crossing over e. condensation of chromosomes
Which one of the following is NOT a zoonosis?
A) cat-scratch disease B) Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome C) rabies D) tapeworm E) All of these are zoonoses.
The presence of detectable variation in the genomes of different individuals of a population is termed:a
DNA sequencing. b. DNA electrophoresis. c. DNA tandem repeats. d. polymorphism. e. DNA profiling