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Which information provided by a nurse to a patient newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes is accurate?

A thrombus forming on an atherosclerotic plaque can cause occlusion of the vessel and an infarction.  What is the most common reason for a thrombus to form on an atherosclerotic plaque?

Let’s declare a variable named dat as dat = 5.7. What is the type of this variable?

Which of the following bacteria is a known causative agent of endocarditis?

Abnormal blood flow has two major components that lead to increased risk of thrombosis.  1. One of these components is maximized when the heart stops beating.  What is this component? 2. The other component is commonly found to be occurring downstream of atherosclerotic plaques.  What is this component?   3. Of the two components you identified, which one is mostly responsible for the formation of mural thrombi in heart ventricles?

Which of the choices below is not a functional process performed by the respiratory system?  

Extra credit worth 2 points A virus has infected a cell. Fragments of viral proteins will be displayed on the surface of the cell by its ________ proteins and will activate a __________ .

When viewing a dissected heart, it is easy to visually discern the right and left ventricles by _________.

Carbon dioxide from tissue cells forms _______________________________ when combined with water. This compound dissociates in to H+ and _________________________, and participates in an important buffering system of the blood.

A child is vaccinated with the flu vaccine. The vaccine most likely presents the body with ________________________  which activates the immune system to produce antibodies.  These antibodies would be produced by ___________________________.