Question 1
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What is the blood type of a person who is heterozygous, having A and B alleles as
codominant?
AB
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Question 1
Selected Answer:
What is the blood type of a person who is heterozygous, having A and B alleles as
codominant?
AB
Question 2
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chinenye Ugwuanyi 8Selected Answer:
The data reporting that sickle cell disease affects approximately 1 in 600 American
blacks is an example of which concept?
Incidence
Question 3
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Answer:
A patient is having a spirometry measurement done and asks the healthcare
professional to explain this test. What response by the professional is best?
To measure the volume and flow rate during forced
expiration
Question 4
Selected Answer:
A healthcare professional is caring for a patient undergoing chemotherapy. What
is the skin-related health risk the professional should assess the patient for and be
prepared to treat?
Erythema
Question 5
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Answer:
A professor has taught the students about the sources of increased ammonia in
patients with hepatic encephalopathy. What statement by a student indicates the
professor should review this material?
Ammonia-forming bacteria in the colon are sources of
increased ammonia.
Question 6
Selected Answer:
What is the second most commonly recognized genetic cause of intellectual
disability?
Fragile X syndrome
Question 7
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1 out of 1 pointsSelected Answer:
What is the role of reverse transcriptase in HIV infection?
It converts RNA into double-stranded DNA.
Question 8
Selected Answer:
Which renal change is found in older adults?
Decrease in the number of nephrons
Question 9
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Answer:
In regulating vascular mediators released from mast cells, the role of eosinophils is
to release what?
Histaminase, which limits the effects of histamine during
acute inflammation
Question 10
Selected Answer:
Under anaerobic conditions, what process provides energy for the cell?
Glycolysis
Question 11
Selected Answer:
A patient had a motor vehicle crash and suffered critical injuries to the brainstem.
What physiological responses would the healthcare professional expect to see?
Pulse and blood pressure changes
Question 12
Selected Answer:
A parent wants to know how to prevent type 1 diabetes in the newborn. The
healthcare professional explains that prevention is not possible, because which of
these is a major characteristic of type 1 diabetes mellitus?
Insulin resistance
0 out of 1 pointsQuestion 13
Selected Answer:
A patient has a pulmonary capillary wedge pressure of 30mmHg. What
assessment finding by the healthcare professional would be most consistent with
this reading?
Rhonchi
Question 14
Selected Answer:
A patient is having an IgE-mediated hypersensitivity reaction. What action by the
healthcare professional is best?
Give the patient an antihistamine.
Question 15
Selected Answer:
A healthcare professional is educating a patient on asthma. The professional tells
the patient that the most successful treatment for chronic asthma begins with
which action?
Avoidance of the causative agent
Question 16
Selected
Answer:
A student asks the healthcare professional to explain the pathophysiologic process
of alcoholic cirrhosis. What statement by the professional would not be consistent
with complete knowledge about this process?
Inflammation and damage leading to cirrhosis begin in the
bile canaliculi.
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