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Pathophysiology
Week 1
Question | Answer |
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The nurse is caring for a patient with a genetic disease that is transmitted through autosomal recessive inheritance. Which is the most likely diagnosis for this patient? | Cystic Fibrosis |
Adaptive cellular mechanisms function to: | Protect cells from injury |
If a patient has liquefactive necrosis, which organ should the nurse assess first? | Brain |
The nurse in the genetics clinic is describing a genetic disease that leads to progressive dementia in middle to later adulthood. To which disease is the nurse most likely referring? | Huntington disease |
The triplet of base pairs necessary to code for a specific amino acid is called a: | Codon |
The outward manifestation of a disease, often influenced by both genes and the environment, is called the disease: | Phenotype |
The condition that occurs when a zygote is missing in each cell is referred to as: | A "monosomy" |
The process by which RNA is formed from DNA for protein synthesis is: | Transcription |
The somatic cell that contains a multiple of 23 chromosomes is called: | An euploid cell |
Which is the chief function of ribosomes? | Protein synthesis |