On average, if you examine 1 million human cells looking at a single gene, you'll find one cell with a mutation in that gene. If you were looking at a gene that could lead to cancer when mutated, how many mutated copies of that gene would you find in a

person? (Assume a person contains 100 trillion [100,000,000,000,000] cells.)

A) 1,000
B) 1,000,000
C) 100
D) 10,000,000,000
E) 100,000,000


Answer: E

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