What does the research indicate regarding sex differences in verbal and mathematical capabilities?
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There are consistent differences when looking at specific subcomponents of IQ testing. In verbal tasks and arithmetic computation, girls do slightly better than boys. Boys do better than girls in numerical reasoning skills. Boys are more likely than girls to score in the "gifted" range in mathematics.
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Huntington's disease, a fatal degenerative movement disorder, results from large numbers of codon repeats in the Huntington gene located on chromosome 4 . This means that the a. extra codon repeats will not impact the individual's phenotype
b. affected Huntington gene will be silenced, producing no protein. c. affected Huntington gene will produce a protein with abnormally large amounts of the amino acid encoded by the extra codons. d. affected Huntington gene will produce a protein with abnormally small amounts of the amino acid encoded by the extra codons.