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6.
1. Your sister in law calls to say that she’s having
twins. Which of the following is the most likely?
(Assume she’s having fraternal, not identical,
twins)
a. Twin boys
b. Twin girls
c. One girl and one boy
d. All are equally likely
2. When you lose 10 pounds, where does most of
the weight go?
a. Out of the body in secretions
b. Out of the body in air you exhale
c. The body uses it up as energy
d. Half out of the body in secretions and half
used up as energy
3. A patient has been identified as having a very
virulent bacterial infection that is spread
through close physical contact. To decrease the
chance of spreading this organism, which
infection control precautions should be
implemented?
a. Airborne precautions
b. Droplet precautions
c. Contact precautions
d. Protective isolation
4. Why do we still get sick if we have a
sophisticated immune system to take care of
infection?
a. It takes time for the immune system to
respond
b. Our immune system cannot recognize all
foreign invaders
c. Microorganisms depress the immune
system
d. Immune system can only respond to
bacterial infection
5. Select the factor(s) that would result in a
decrease in blood pressure
a. Increased arterial diameter
b. Decreased stroke volume
c. Decreased blood viscosity
d. Increased parasympathetic stimulation
e. All of the above
7. Indirect calorimetry measures what variable
to determine energy output?
a. Carbon dioxide
b. ATP
c. Heat
d. Oxygen
e. Nitrogen
8. If a person has many copies of a particular
protein whose structure is changed from normal,
where did the mutation causing this change most
likely originate?
a. In the DNA sequence of the gene
b. In the mRNA sequence
c. In the amino acid sequence
d. In the protein
9. Francis Crick and colleagues did a clever
experiment to prove that the unit read into an
amino acid, now called a “codon”, was 3 bases.
What could we do to prove that a codon is 3
bases?
a. Add a nucleotide to a sequence
b. Remove a nucleotide from a sequence
c. Add 3 different nucleotides to a sequence
d. All of the above
10. A mutation in the gene that causes polydactyl
(extra fingers or toes) converts a normal codon
in the middle of the gene to a stop codon. This
type of mutation will lead to:
a. an early stop in translation of the RNA
into amino acids (shorter protein)
b. an early stop in transcription of the DNA
into RNA (shorter transcript)
c. both a and b
d. neither a nor b