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What should be the primary use of child assessment data?

What are ‘alternative assessments’ often used to evaluate?

In assessing learning outcomes, what does the term ‘learning goal alignment’ refer to?

In the context of assessment for learning, what does ‘deconstructing old beliefs’ refer to?

How many copies of an autosomal dominant allele must a person have in order to show the disorder?

A person is heterozygous for a dominant autosomal allele. This person would not be affected by this disease.

For a ________________________________   trait, it takes two copies of the allele for women to show the condition but only one copy of the allele for men to show the condition, affected sons are born to unaffected mothers

CRISPR is different than gene therapy in that scientists can use CRISPR to correct the mutation in the gene, not replace the entire gene.

There is an FDA approved HIV vaccine that is typically given to all children in the U.S.  

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