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A nurse is reviewing the arterial blood gas values for a client. The pH is 7.32, PaC02 48 mm Hg, and the HCO3 is 23 mEq/L. The nurse should recognize that these findings indicate which of the following acid base balances?

Upon removing a dressing from a wound, the nurse notices a strong odor. What is the appropriate priority nursing action?

Abe is creating a presentation and wants to grab the audience’s attention with a visual effect when he moves from one slide to another. What should he add to the presentation?

Marcie is finishing her research paper for biology class and asks for feedback from her roommate, Robin, on how it looks. Robin says has trouble finding the title of the paper. How can Marcie make the title stand out while maintaining consistency and a professional look to the paper?

Mutations in the fibrillin 1 gene cause Marfan Syndrome. A common feature of people with Marfan Syndrome is that they are tall. Why is this?

Latonya wants to include a website link in her newsletter so readers can click the link and go straight to the website. What kind of formatting does she need to use?

Bob and Linda are a newly married couple. They hope to have a child but are having trouble getting pregnant. They visit a fertility clinic, where they receive genetic tests. One test shows that Bob is healthy but carries a single disease-causing allele for CFTR (the gene that can cause cystic fibrosis), but Linda does not. What type of genetic test was performed?

Consider the karyotype below: This karyotype shows chromosomes from a [somaticcell]. The arrow is pointing to [adoublehelix]. The karyotype shows that this individual [TurnerSyndrome]  

There is a drug that can improve symptoms in ~90% of people with cystic fibrosis.

In humans, [female] development is the default pathway for sex development (i.e., whether a person is biologically male (e.g. has testis) or female (e.g. has ovaries).    Which gene determines if the default sex-development pathway occurs or the alternative sex-development pathway occurs? [SRY]   The gene that determines which sex development pathway occurs is on [theYchromosome].   If a sperm with a Y chromosome is used to fertilize an egg, what will the gonads look like when the embryo is  1 week old? [bipotential]