People who are homozygous for the A allele of the FTO gene are ______ more likely to be obese than individuals without the A allele.
A. 5%
B. 15%
C. 70%
D. 90%
Answer: C
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The yearly medical costs associated with obesity is _____.
A. $53.2 million B. $523.9 million C. $14 billion D. $147 billion
At a lunch meeting with a client, the CEO of Gossip Polls, Inc, was asked to determine America's favorite day of the week. Hundreds of Gossip employees across the U.S. started collecting data immediately, calling people at their residences. One hour later, the attitudes from 10,000 Americans, across all 50 states, were collected. A staff member called the CEO, still at her lunch meeting, to tell
her the results of the poll: America's favorite day of the week is Monday. Given your text's discussion of inductive reasoning in science, we might suspect that the observations in this poll are not representative because a. the participants were only asked one question for this poll. b. the participants were not sufficiently geographically diverse. c. the people who are home to answer the phone in the early afternoon are not an appropriate cross-section of the U.S. population. d. everyone in America was not asked their opinion.
You tell your parents about the "funny stories" that your psychology teacher uses to explain various concepts and theories. Your parents respond that they are not sending you to college to hear "funny stories" and that the teacher should lecture on the subject like when they went to college. Which barrier to problem solving is illustrated by your parents' comment?
a. emotional barrier b. cultural barrier c. learned barrier d. perceptual barrier
Globally, almost 1 million children are born with genetically linked birth defects
Indicate whether the statement is true or false