The probability that a disease phenotype will appear when a disease-related genotype is present is called
____________________.Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
penetrance
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In addition to cystic fibrosis patients, patients with which other disease are at greatest risk of death due to fulminant lung infections and/or bacteremia caused by B. cepacia?
a. Cardiovascular disease b. Chronic kidney disease c. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease d. Chronic granulomatous disease
In which of the following cases would DNA
profiling be used?
a. to reconstruct population dispersals b. to identify the remains of dead people c. to solve crimes d. to trace ethnic hertiages e. to do all of these
Which of the following is a type of local signaling in which a cell secretes a signal molecule that affects neighboring cells?
A) hormonal signaling B) autocrine signaling C) paracrine signaling D) synaptic signaling
A woman who was selected to have her entire genome sequenced would discover that she had at least ___ homolog(s) for every chromosomal gene.
a) 2 b) 1 c) 4 d) 0 e) 3