1) The entire collection of individual units being studied is called the__population. 2) A small subset from the set of all children in Indiana suffering from asthma is called ___sample. 3) All the genes in the human genome are called a population. 4) A selection of 20 human genes is a __sample. 5) Consider the amount of sugar in breakfast cereals. This characteristic of breakfast cereal (objects) is called avariable. 6) _Variableis a trait or characteristic that describes the members of a population (e. g., heights, weight, hair color, etc.). 7) A ___ distribution ___ is a mathematical function that describes the relative frequency ___ of different values of a variable in a population or a sample. 8) Aparameter is a population quantity. It is used to describe some characteristics of a population. Usually we cannot measure a __population. It is an unknown constant that we would like to estimate. 9) A _statistics is any quantity computed from values in a sample. 10) A parameter describes a population___. A statistic describe a __sample.