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Multiple choice help please? 3.Checkpoint proteins act as which of the following

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Multiple choice help please?

3.Checkpoint proteins act as which of the following?

Proto-oncogenes

Transcription factors

Tumor-suppressing genes

Oncogenes

4.Which of the following is a common type of tumor suppressor gene?

Genes that increase the rate of the cell cycle or stimulate cell division

Genes that stop the cell cycle to repair DNA

Genes involved in DNA synthesis

All of the other choices are correct

7. Caspases are active during which of the following?

Viral integration

The normal cell cycle

Apoptosis

DNA replication

10.Which of the following is a concern of population genetics?

Genetic variation

What influences protein folding

How the cell copies its DNA

Cause of genetic disease

17.Birds that lay an intermediate number of eggs are more successful than those that lay few or those that lay many.

Directional selection

Stabilizing selection

Balancing selection

Disruptive selection

Proto-oncogenes

Transcription factors

Tumor-suppressing genes

Oncogenes

Explanation / Answer

3. (C) Tumour suppresor genes

4. (B) Genes that stop the cell cycle to rapair the DNA

7. (C) Apoptosis

10. (A) Genetic variation

17. (B) Stabilizing selection