When only a very few individuals give rise to a new population in a new area of favorable habitat, the new population might possess different genotype frequencies for a certain trait than the larger population from which it separated. This is called the _________ effect.

Two bacteria (A and B) can both metabolize glucose, but bacterium A has developed an enzyme which can convert fructose into glucose whereas bacteria B does not. Why does bacterium A have a survival advantage over bacterium B?

The mode of natural selection in which one extreme phenotype is most fit and the environment selects against all other phenotypes is:

Within a population, the entire collection of genes and their alleles is the population’s:

A single common ancestor which evolved into the current 28 species of silversword plants found on the Hawaiian Islands over hundreds of thousands of years is an example of:

Think about students graduating high school in today’s world. What skills—academic, technical, social, and personal—do they need to thrive in higher education, the workforce, and life?  Prompts:  1. “To succeed in the rapidly changing world, students need to develop the ability to…” 2. “In addition to academic knowledge, graduates must be equipped with skills like…” 3. “One essential skill for thriving in both life and work after high school is…” 4. “As technology advances, it is crucial for students to have expertise in…” 5. “To navigate the challenges of the future, students should leave high school with strong competencies in…”

9. A nurse is completing the preoperative checklist with a client who has arrived for an elective procedure. When reviewing the labs, the nurse tells the client that the nurse will need to contact the client’s physician to review the labs. Which of the following labs would likely indicate that the client is not able to have the elective procedure done today?  Lab Client’s Value Reference Range BUN 12 mg/dL 10-20 mg/dL Glucose 154 mg/dL 70-100 mg/dL WBC 7000 cells/microL 5000-10000 cells/microL Hgb 7.2 g/dL 14.0 -17.0 g/dL

The nurse explains to a patient with Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma that a positron emission tomography (PET) has been ordered for which reason?

The nurse is reading the results of a white blood cell count differential. Which abnormal reading indicates a severe allergic reaction?

The home health nurse recommends to the mother of a 12-year-old child with leukemia that the child should have which vaccine?