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Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
Surprising Facts About At-Home DNA Tests
If you send your DNA to two different companies to find out about your ancestry, you may end up with two different results. That's (21) ________ there's no certification（鉴定）required for DNA-testing companies. They may get the basic idea correct -- (22) ________ you are a little less than half northern European, for example, but when they say you're 30 percent from here and 60 percent from there, it's a statistical guess based on their own database and method.
Your results will be (23) ________ (precise) if you're not a native. The more people from your ancestral region in a company's database, the more accurate your results will be.
You can find out your risk of diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer's from an at-home DNA test kit, but a laboratory (24) ________ (authorize) to do medical testing will give you much more conclusive results.
The results of your genetic testing could affect your ability to get insurance. (25) ________ federal law prohibits health insurers from denying coverage based on genetic test results, the law does not apply to life, disability, and long-term-care insurance.
Law-enforcement agencies are increasingly using family tree DNA databases to solve crimes, as was done in the arrest of a former police officer accused of being the Golden State Killer. California detectives took the DNA results from various crime scenes, (26) ________ (look) for partial matches on a public genealogy database, and eventually found their man.
The market is also exploding with companies (27) ________ (claim) they can pinpoint the right product -- for your skin or your waistline, for instance - based on a DNA test. But consider them entertainment (28) ________ ________ real science, Greely says. A study found that diets based on genetic tests didn't help people lose weight.
Still, DNA tests can answer questions you've had about yourself - and (29) ________ you didn't know to ask. For example, for (30) ________ additional cost, 23 and Me will include your results on more than 25 individual traits, including if you are likely to be a morning person, whether your hatred of cilantro is genetic, and if your earwax is more likely to be dry or wet.
Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
Surprising Facts About At-Home DNA Tests
If you send your DNA to two different companies to find out about your ancestry, you may end up with two different results. That's (21) ________ there's no certification（鉴定）required for DNA-testing companies. They may get the basic idea correct -- (22) ________ you are a little less than half northern European, for example, but when they say you're 30 percent from here and 60 percent from there, it's a statistical guess based on their own database and method.
Your results will be (23) ________ (precise) if you're not a native. The more people from your ancestral region in a company's database, the more accurate your results will be.
You can find out your risk of diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer's from an at-home DNA test kit, but a laboratory (24) ________ (authorize) to do medical testing will give you much more conclusive results.
The results of your genetic testing could affect your ability to get insurance. (25) ________ federal law prohibits health insurers from denying coverage based on genetic test results, the law does not apply to life, disability, and long-term-care insurance.
Law-enforcement agencies are increasingly using family tree DNA databases to solve crimes, as was done in the arrest of a former police officer accused of being the Golden State Killer. California detectives took the DNA results from various crime scenes, (26) ________ (look) for partial matches on a public genealogy database, and eventually found their man.
The market is also exploding with companies (27) ________ (claim) they can pinpoint the right product -- for your skin or your waistline, for instance - based on a DNA test. But consider them entertainment (28) ________ ________ real science, Greely says. A study found that diets based on genetic tests didn't help people lose weight.
Still, DNA tests can answer questions you've had about yourself - and (29) ________ you didn't know to ask. For example, for (30) ________ additional cost, 23 and Me will include your results on more than 25 individual traits, including if you are likely to be a morning person, whether your hatred of cilantro is genetic, and if your earwax is more likely to be dry or wet.
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