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45. BONUS! (1pt.) It’s been a AMAZING semester! I hope you learned TONS of biology even while being online! ! Have a great summer break and I wish you the best moving forward! =) To earn your 1pt EXTRA CREDIT, tell me your LEAST favorite thing about class this semester!

What tissue is responsible for breast size in older women?

Peau d’ orange is a thinning of the breast skin seen in some malignancies and resembles an orange peel.

3. With regards to the Bacteriophage virus experiments of Alfred Hershey & Martha Chase, if you were to genetically engineer a phage virus with a protein coat of phage T2 and DNA of phage Lambda and allow it to infect a bacterium, you would expect to see which of the following resulting daughter phage viruses produced? 

A 26 y/o F presents to the department with low-grade fever, elevated WBC, and  LT breast redness and pain x 1 week.  The patient is 3 weeks postpartum and currently breast feeding.  Based on this sonographic image and the patient history,  what is the most likely diagnosis? 

List three (3) common sites for breast cancer metastasis:

It is very common for cancer to metastasize to the breast.

A 47 y/o F patient is sent over from the mammograpy department. You are told to evaluate the well circumscribed density seen on the patient’s mammogram with ultrasound.   A) What information can sonography tell the radiologist about the breast mass? (1 point) B) Which breast is the mass in?  What quadrant will you evaluate with ultrasound? (2 points)  

40.  Over summer break you are planning on taking a trip to Mexico with some friends! Woohoo! You plan on getting a fabulous tan before returning home to Florida.  You know from Biology class to be cautious in the Hawaiian sun because UV light is a mutagen that causes which of the following DNA mutations? 

16. Which of the following is the 1st enzyme used in DNA Replication (this is the enzyme that untwists the DNA double helix)?