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An article in the British scientific journal Nature (“Sucrose Induction of Hepatic Hyperplasia in the Rat,” August 25,1972: 461) reports on an experiment in which each of five groups consisting of six rats was put on a diet with a different carbohydrate. At the conclusion of the experiment, the DNA content of the liver of each rat was determined (mg/g liver), with the following results:
Carbohydrate |
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Starch | 2.58 |
Sucrose | 2.63 |
Fructose | 2.13 |
Glucose | 2.41 |
Maltose | 2.49 |
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Student Solutions Manual for Devore's Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences, 9th
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