Acertain by-product of industrial chemical processes is suspected of causing cancer and birth defects in animals and humans. this molecule enters cells and binds to receptor proteins, which then enter the nucleus and attaches to the dna to alter the pattern of gene expression. based on this observation, the chemical by-product can be said to closely mimic the actions of what substance

Carcinogen

Explanation:

Carcinogens are substances that are capable of inducing cancer (uncontrolled cell division) by altering the base composition of the cell DNA.

They often resembles the structure of the bases present in the receptor proteins so as to aid easy binding.

Thus, the substance mimics the action of a CARCINOGEN

most historians agree that gabriel mouton, the vicar of st. paul’s church in lyons, france, is the “founding father” of the metric system. he proposed a decimal system of measurement in 1670. mouton based it on the length of one minute of arc of a great circle of the earth (now called a nautical mile, 1852 meters). he also proposed the swing-length of a pendulum with a frequency of one beat per second as the unit of length (about 25 cm). a pendulum beating with this length would have been fairly easy to produce, thus facilitating the widespread distribution of uniform standards. over the years, his work was revised, improved, and extended by a number of french scientists.

the political sponsor of weights and measures reform in the french revolutionary national assembly was the bishop of autun, better known as talleyrand. under his auspices, the french academy appointed several committees to carry out the work of developing a usable system of weights and measures for france. one of the committees recommended a decimalized measurement system based upon a length equal to one ten-millionth of the length of a quadrant of the earth’s meridian (i.e., one ten-millionth of the distance between the equator and the north pole).