Is it possible to be a "carrier" for achondroplasia (phenotypically normal but capable of passing the allele to one's offspring)?

a. Yes
b. No


b

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Chicks will peck at a red dot painted on any long, slender object. For the chicks, pecking is a ____ and the red dot is a ____ . For the adult gulls, the chicks pecking at their bills is a ____ and regurgitating food is a ____ . Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.

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The highest level of the hierarchy of life is the ____

a. population b. biosphere c. ecosystem d. multicellular organism e. cell

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Genes whose expression (or abnormal expression) causes cancer are called

A. carcinogens. B. oncogenes. C. cancer genes. D. progenes.

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Four of the five answers listed below are innervated by the autonomic nervous system. Select the

exception. a. skeletal muscles b. smooth muscles c. heart d. endocrine glands e. exocrine glands

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