Nacho suffers from terrible migraine headaches. He enters a clinical trial to test whether certain single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are associated with response to one drug but not another. This is an approach called
A) gene therapy.
B) pharmacogenetics.
C) genetic determinism.
D) applied pharmacology.
B) pharmacogenetics.
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a. one gene, plus environmental triggers b. the same gene c. many genes, plus environmental triggers d. copy number variants, without environmental triggers e. the same mutations that cause autism spectrum disorders
Which of the following forms of Plasmodium
carried by an infected mosquito infects humans?
a. merozoites b. gametocytes c. cysts d. sporozoites e. spores
Which of the following best describes a chemoreceptor response to PO2?
A) Peripheral chemoreceptors respond to oxyhemoglobin. B) Central chemoreceptors respond to only large decreases in PO2. C) Peripheral chemoreceptors respond to small changes in PO2. D) Peripheral chemoreceptors respond only indirectly to PO2. E) Central chemoreceptors do not respond to changes in PO2.
If plants originated from an organism like Chlamydomonas, then the origin of plants involved the loss of ________.
A. cell walls B. chloroplasts C. microtubules D. flagella