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The NCLEX (National Council Licensure Examination) is the licensure examination for Registered nurses (RN) and Vocational nurses (VN) in the United States.

Which of these is not a reason why incarcerated persons 50 years of age or older are more likely to have health problems than non-incarcerated persons in this same age group?

What are substance-involved offenders less likely to do if they receive treatment in prison compared to substance-involved offenders who do not receive treatment?

___ , a form of therapy, helps individuals identify and modify unhelpful thought patterns and beliefs that impact their emotions and behaviors.

When determining the possibility of parole, the parole board looks at all of the following except:

Name your favorite vertebrate and which CLASS it belongs to.

Based on what you know about the basis of altruism in social insects, would non-monogamy (multiple partners) in a queen of a social insect colony be likely to increase or decrease the chance of her daughters trying to reproduce themselves by laying unfertilized eggs? Explain your answer. 

Explain the three features necessary to classify an organism as a vertebrate.

Compare/contrast protostome to that of the deuterostome during embryonic development. (There should be multiple examples, at least two separate for each.) 

Would you expect a steroid hormone to elicit a response more quickly or slowly than a peptide hormone? Explain your answer.