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Individuals with the progeria syndrome
  a. number about one in eight million.
  b. will have an accelerated rate of aging.
  c. usually die in their teens.
  d. carry a mutant gene for a nuclear structural
  protein.
  e. are all of these.
 
 

Question 2

Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (the aging
  disease)
  a. is controlled by a simple recessive gene.
  b. is a sex-linked disease more common in males.
  c. occurs only in those individuals in which a
  mutation arises and is not found in other
  members of the family.
  d. is the result of the failure of chromosomes to
  separate so that an individual receives three
  instead of two chromosomes.
  e. is none of these.

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