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Doctors discover a new gland in the body.  They decide it is an endocrine gland, instead of an exocrine gland, based on its 

You are the triage nurse at a busy ER.  A young man arrives, complaining of pain in the upper right quadrant of his abdomen.  Which abdominal organ might be causing him pain?

Which is the resting stage of a hair follicle?

You work as a lab technician for a pathologist.  You are both looking at a biopsy, checking for mitotic cells.  He asks you to count the number of cells in each high-powered microscope field, looking for the cells with the chromosomes being pulled away from each other.  Which stage of mitosis does he want you to count?

The process which occurs with the DNA in the cell nucleus before mitosis, where the DNA strands are copied to go to the 2 resulting cells, is called ____________.

Water serves all of the following functions in the human body EXCEPT which one?

The step of the Cell Cycle in which no cell division is occurring, the cell is only performing its usual metabolic processes, and where the cell spends most of its time, is _______________.

An example of a positive (self-amplifying) feedback system would be 

A well-run medical study (using good experimental design) on a new medication has ALL BUT which of the following elements or qualities? 

A phlebotomist in the ER attempts to place an IV catheter in the antecubital area.  Where is this on the patient?