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What part of the body is this image a cross-section from?      

What part of the body is this image a cross-section from? (Notice the presence of the corpus albicans)      

What part of blood is being highlighted by the arrows below? (They are pointing to the blue particles)        

What term describes structure B?  

The blood samples below have been treated with Anti-A, Anti-B, and Anti-D/Anti-Rh. What is the blood type of Blood sample 4?        

What part of the body is this image a cross-section from? Notice the follicles in this tissue.      

The ability to bend one’s pinkie finger is a dominant trait. Say one parent is homozygous recessive for the trait crosses with one parent who is heterozygous. What are the chances their offspring cannot bend their pinkies?

Consider the following image of a cell inside a solution:   The percentages represent the solute concentration of the cell and the solution respectively. The cell membrane is semipermeable, so water can move freely across the membrane, but solutes cannot. Use this to answer the following questions.

There are vaccines that use proteins to activate a person’s immune system. The proteins from some of these vaccines are coded for by using genes from multiple organisms. For example, a hepatitis vaccine may consist of a protein that is made from DNA of multiple organisms. This happens by using yeast cells that have viral DNA mixed into their own DNA. Which of the following is described in this scenario? Note: yeast are single-celled organisms, so a single cell is considered an organism.

A person’s height is influenced by many genes, which are active at different times throughout a person’s development. Height can be described as: