bonus: A pharmacogenetic test detects a variant of a single gene that affects drug metabolism, and a pharmacogenomics test detects variants of multiple genes or gene expression patterns that affect drug metabolism.

RNA interference, antisense-induced exon skipping, and knockouts from gene targeting are used to silence gene expression for research purposes.

There are four characteristics of cancer cells. First, cancer cells divide continuously and indefinitely; secondly, they are heritable. What are the other two?

Oncogenes __________.  

Bonus: One reason the incidence of female infertility increases with age is that older women are more likely to produce oocytes that have an abnormal chromosome number that can cause spontaneous abortions.

A test offered on the Web by a direct-to-consumer genetic testing company genotypes a gene for ability to taste bitter substances. This test is not regulated by the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) because

When the tumor grows, it needs additional blood vessels to provide nutrition, for this, it goes through the process of angiogenesis.

In case of breast cancer, where HER 2 receptor is mutated, the mutation increases the receptor activity.

Solve the problem. Show all of your work on your own paper.The amount of time it takes an object dropped from an initial height of h0 feet of the building to reach a height of h feet is given by the formula How long would it take an object to reach the ground from the top of a building that is 470 tall? Round to the nearest tenth of a second.

A genetic counselor provides information to individuals, couples, and families on modes of inheritance, recurrence risks but not on genetic tests and treatments.