The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Questions for Ch. 20-32 Chapter Twenty: The HeLa Bomb 1. What did Stanley Gartler discover about eighteen of the most commonly used cell cultures? Stanly Gartler found out that the cell cultures all contain a rare genetic marker called G6PD-A which was present almost exclusively in black Americans. 2. How did the scientific community respond to Gartler’s theory about HeLa contamination? I think Skloot puts it best: "Gartler’s findings did not go over
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Chapter 30: Nursing Assessment: Hematologic System Test Bank MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. The nurse is caring for a patient who is being discharged after an emergency splenectomy following an automobile accident. Which instructions should the nurse include in the discharge teaching? a. Watch for excess bruising. b. Check for swollen lymph nodes. c. Take iron supplements to prevent anemia. d. Wash hands and avoid persons who are ill. ANS: D Splenectomy increases the risk for infection‚ especially with gram-positive
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should make. 8. As you work your way through each of the body systems‚ identify the following structures and function. 9. Digestive System: peritoneum‚ stomach‚ small intestine‚ colon and rectum‚ rectal gland‚ cloaca‚ liver‚ pancreas‚ spleen‚ and gall bladder. 10. Urogenital System: kidneys‚ male archinephric ducts‚ testes‚ ovaries‚ uterus. 11. Circulatory System: sinus venosus‚ 1 atrium‚ 1 ventricle‚ conus arteriosus‚ ventral aorta‚ afferent branchial arteries‚ efferent
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from hostile demons and monsters. Monstrous Charon‚ in cantos III is bringing the souls over the river to punishment. When Charon refuses to let Dante cross the river because he is human‚ Virgil steps in: “And my guide to him: ‘Charon‚ Bite back your spleen: this has been willed where what is willed must be‚ and is not yours to ask what it may mean” (21.91-93). As Virgil informs Charon that their journey has been ordered from up high‚ Charon no longer bothers them. Virgil is supporting Dante throughout
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Case studies help today’s nursing professionals acquire essential critical thinking skills for solving both common and more complex health problems. This paper discusses about two different cases- Ms. A with iron-deficiency anemia and Mr. P with congestive heart failure. Case study#1 “Anemia is a reduction in the total number of erythrocytes in the circulating blood or a decrease in the quality or quantity of hemoglobin” (McCance‚ Huether‚ 2010). Anemia results from decreased production of erythrocytes
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Purpose The digestive system prepares food for use by hundreds of millions of body cells. Food when eaten cannot reach cells (because it cannot pass through the intestinal walls to the bloodstream and‚ if it could would not be in a useful chemical state. The gut modifies food physically and chemically and disposes of unusable waste. Physical and chemical modification (digestion) depends on exocrine and endocrine secretions and controlled movement of food through the digestive tract. Mouth Mouth
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Leopard Frog Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum Vertebrata Class: Amphibia Order: Anura Genus: Rana Species: Rana pipiens I. Purpose: To examine the frog externally and internally by dissection. II. Materials: 1. Frog 2. Dissection pan 3. Manual 4. Dissection utensils III. Methods: A. External: The dissectors set up for their lab by getting the following materials: the frog‚
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very important to take a good medical history as this can provide 70 per cent or more of the clues that may lead to the diagnosis. A nurse must familiarize themselves with the anatomy of abdomen. The organs located in the abdomen are: the stomach‚ spleen‚ liver‚ gall bladder‚ pancreas‚ kidneys‚ small intestine and large intestine. The organs in the pelvis are: the bladder‚ caecum‚ appendix‚ sigmoid colon‚ rectum and female reproductive organs. (Cole‚ Lynch‚ & Cugnoni‚ 2006). It is very important
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The Human Body Systems By Yash Dhayal‚ Mathew Nemet‚ and Tom Battaglini Table Of Contents Overview * Skeletal system - Functions and Parts * Muscular System - Types of Muscles * Integumentary System - Functions * Circulatory System - Parts of the Circulatory System * Immune System - Organs and Cells of he Immune System * Respiratory System - Parts of the Respiratory System * Digestive System * Urinary System * Endocrine System * Nervous System Overview *
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Malaria In epidemiology‚ a vector is any agent (person‚ animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits an infectious pathogen into another living organism. Malaria‚ and also know as Plasmodium Falciparum is a mosquito-borne infectious disease of humans and other animals caused by protists (a type of microorganism) of the genus Plasmodium. It begins with a bite from an infected female Anopheles mosquito‚ which introduces the protists through saliva into the circulatory system. In the blood
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