Although the premise of personalized medicine is sound, a drawback is that:

What will be an ideal response?


Two acceptable answers. 1) we currently can't determine an individual's genotype quickly,
reliably, and inexpensively, or 2) we currently have too few medications for most conditions
to provide alternatives when one proves ineffective.

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Viruses infecting ________ are typically the easiest to grow in the laboratory

A) plants B) animals C) fungi D) prokaryotes

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Hormones are typically involved in maintaining ____ , or a given steady state for a particular factor (like sugar or calcium levels in the blood)

Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.

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The destruction of (cysts/endospores/viruses) is the goal of industrial canning procedures

What will be an ideal response?

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An enhancer _____________________ the gene it affects

a. must be upstream from b. can be very distant from c. cannot be within an intron of d. must be in the same orientation as e. must be downstream from

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