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Which is the most common anticoagulant used to prevent clotting in order to perform a complete blood count?

If a red blood cell appears like a sickled cell or is an elongated cell, you would describe this appearance with the term

In the student lab, which objective is considered the oil immersion objective?

Identify the type of sequence and then find the sum of the first 85 terms. (Please show all work.) 19, 26, 33, 40,…   type: [arith] sum: [number]  *Round to the nearest whole number if needed.  

In humans, occasionally a baby is found that has the XX chromosomal karyotype but is phenotypically male. Which of the following statements might be a CORRECT explanation for at least some of these unusual cases?

Mendel crossed pure-breeding tall plants with pure-breeding short plants. He found that all of the F1 plants were tall. When these F1 plants were allowed to fertilize themselves, the F2 plants occurred in a ratio of 2.84 tall to 1 short. Which of the following is NOT a valid conclusion from these results?r

Two blue chickens were mated. The progeny of this mating had the following phenotype ratio: 1 white chicken : 2 blue chickens : 1 black chicken. What type of inheritance pattern does this 1:2:1 phenotype ratio suggest?

A woman has type A blood. A man has type B blood. Can they have a child with type O blood?

Even though Isaiah Austin has Marfan syndrome the NBA still allows him to play basketball.

A recent study differentiated human stem cells from a male (XY), female (XX) and cells from a sex-reversed DSD individual (XY born as female) and showed that the somatic cells produced by XX and XY are different from each other, and the cells of the sex-reversed individual are somewhere in the middle, closer to male than female.