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Which term refers to a specific region of the genome that differs between two genomes?
Variant
Which term refers to different versions of the same variant?
Allele
Which term refers to the occurrence in a population of two or more genetically determined forms in such frequencies that the rarest of them could not be maintained by DNA alteration alone?
Polymorphism
Which term refers to a variant that can cause a heritable disorder or an acquired disease?
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Which type of pathogenic variant can be inherited?
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Which type of variant can cause a heritable disorder or an acquired disease?
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What is the minimum frequency at which at least two alleles of a polymorphism must be present in a population?
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Which type of variant is important in cancer development?
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How many base pairs are there in the human genome?
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On average, how long is the coding DNA of an average gene?
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