An adolescent is admitted to the hospital with a suspected d…
An adolescent is admitted to the hospital with a suspected diagnosis of osteogenic sarcoma (osteosarcoma). The nurse notes that the teenager has pain in his right knee and is limping with ambulation. What part of the body is most commonly affected by osteosarcoma?
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A nurse is preparing to administer scheduled immunizations to a child who just turned 4 years old. The child has been vaccinated regularly since birth. Using the 2020 CDC Immunization Guidelines, which of the following immunizations should the nurse prepare to administer? (Choose all that apply.)
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The diagram below shows the inheritance of a plasmid (small circle, dashed line is the bacterial genome) through 3 generations of bacterial growth. Explain why only a single cell in generation 3 has a plasmid. How could you alter the plasmid DNA to ensure that every cell in generation 3 inherits a copy?
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Further investigation of your cool alien life form reveals it contains a DNA polymerase that has an error rate of 1 mistake in every 106 bases copied. However, the overall mutation rate is much lower. This is most likely because:
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