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All of the following options (except one) are locations where ribosomes are found inside the cell. Choose the exception.

In 2 or 3 complete sentences, please choose one topic from the FOAL CARE videos you just watched and explain why it stood out to you.

Please read the following case study and answer the following questions in COMPLETE sentences.  Points will be deducted if an absence of consideration is detected in your responses. Chapter 2- Livestock Safety and Handling CASE STUDY  on p. 69  in Large Animal Clinical Procedures for Veterinary Technicians (review material on Foal restraint on pp. 42-43) You arrive at one of your client’s breeding farms. The client raises approximately 30 Arabian foals each year. She has informed you that there is a foal with a deep puncture wound in the pasture north of her house. She is unable to catch the foal and separate it from its mother.  She asks you and the veterinarian to help her. What should you do?- Please consider the following in preparing your response. Please consider the dynamics of mare and foal behavior in relation to your safety and the safety of the mare and foal in attempting to catch the foal for treatment.  Explain how you would successfully and safely accomplish this.   How would you approach the mare and foal?  Where is the mare during this process?  Where is the foal?  Would anything be different if this was attempted in a paddock/pasture vs a small stall? Once the foal is caught, please explain how you would  safely restrain the foal for treatment so that neither the foal nor you, as the restrainer, are injured?  Please explain safety concerns to consider toward (1) the foal and (2) the restrainer?

Please read the following case study and answer the following question in COMPLETE sentences.  Points will be deducted if an absence of consideration is detected in your response. Chapter 5 Daily Hospital Responsibilities CASE STUDY on p. 142 -Large Animal Clinical Procedures for Veterinary Technicians (review material on Special Cases-pp. 136-140, 142) A case of Streptococcus Equi (“Strangles”) has just been confirmed in one of your current patients. The horse is going to be staying in the clinic with you. Your practice is new and does not have a current contagious case protocol. You have been assigned the task of writing the new protocol. You have several veterinary assistants and doctors who will be using the protocol. Please write a DETAILED contagious case protocol for this busy practice.  Please consider the following in preparing your response. Location [multiple barns vs one barn] Material to use in stall Traffic flow of patient and people How could you indicate to staff contagious nature of disease while protecting privacy of diagnosis from public?  PPE?  Who should enter? Equipment? Tools? Disinfection protocol? Contact time? Nursing care for the equine patient- considerations for patients with diarrhea Laundry? Bedding? Used supply disposal?  Upon discharge of patient- protocol to prepare area for next patient Unused supplies [wrapped vs unwrapped]    

In rabbits, brown fur (B) is dominant to white fur (b) and short fur (H) is dominant to long fur (h). A brown, long-furred rabbit (Bbhh) is crossed with a white, short-furred rabbit (bbHh). Both the B and H traits assort independently from one another. What percentage of the offspring will be brown with long fur? Cross: Bbhh x bbHh

Case Study [p. 376, Large Animal textbook] Your veterinarian is trying to perform a joint injection on a 5-year-old racing thoroughbred owned by Mr. Frickel.  As he is preparing the injection site, the horse is shifting its weight and trying to step forward. The veterinarian tells you to keep him still. (1) Why is it important for the horse to remain still for this procedure? [2 points] (2) How should the injection site be prepared? [2 points] (3) When would local anesthesia be required? [2 points]

Which of the following is a closed space [cavity] that has membrane linings (serous membranes) that secrete fluid into the cavity.   

Imagine that you are a rabbit breeder with two purebred rabbits, a male with black fur and a female with tan fur. When you cross your rabbits, all of the F1 kits (baby rabbits) have tan fur.

Identify the radiographic image:  

If it is known that a goal is definitely many arcs away from the starting position in a very large search space with a high branching factor, which search strategy would run the highest risk of having a long or indefinite runtime?