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Fiona, a 67-year-old lady, suffers from a condition wherein her red blood cells multiply at an exponential rate. Her doctor pronounces that alterations in protein synthesis have resulted in changes in her DNA. He diagnoses her condition as blood cancer. In this scenario, which of the following is most likely to be the cause of blood cancer?
 A) Denaturation
  B) Epigenetics
  C) Malnutrition
  D) Mutation

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The primary structure of a protein is critical to its function because it:
 A) determines the protein's most basic chemical and physical characteristics.
  B) includes a prosthetic group within it that is necessary for the protein to function.
  C) causes polypeptides to fold into unique patterns that determine the protein's complex structure.
  D) determines the genetic code of the strands of DNA.


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Reply #1 on: Aug 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

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