A protective layer composed of overlapping cells, like fish scales or roof tiles, but facing downwards. The outer cuticle holds your hair in your hair follicle by means of a Velcro-like bond. It also minimizes the movement of water (moisture) in and out of the underlying cortex.
Answer: D. Mutation in coding sequences are more likely to be deleterious to the organism than mutations in noncoding sequences.
Explanation: It was not likely to be that the coding sequences are replicated more often. The only possible explanation is that the mutations in coding is more likely to be deleterious to the organism than mutations because it is in a non coding sequence.
Group 7a would have an ion charge of -1 because it has 7 valence electrons and it wants to gain one more electron(which is negative) to have a full shell of 8
