Hello Students, as a conclusion to the course I have decided to add an extra credit question. I will manually calculate the extra credit of a possible +2 points into the grade. Pick one question below and respond to fully.  A. At the age of 6 months, Caleb was diagnosed with Tay-Sachs disease. As his primary care physician, what would you tell his parents about this disease?   B. A 62-year-old woman was in a car accident and suffered severe brain damage. Will the brain be able to repair the damaged tissue to a functional level? Explain your answer.   C. Why is it possible for us to drink a solution that contains a mixture of equal concentration of a strong acid and a strong base, either of which, separately, would be very caustic?

Articulations permitting only slight degrees of movement are ________.  

Which of the following is NOT a function of dendrites?  

Choose only ONE question below and respond fully. Identify which question your are responding to, answer in essay format(NOT BULLET FORMAT) Fully respond to the question in order to receive points. No copy and pasting or no credit will be given, use your own words to  interpret the material. A. While the fingers can exhibit flexion and extension and other angular motions, the thumb has much greater freedom. Explain why this is the case.    B. What is the somatosensory homunculus? Which body region would be larger in the homunculus, the face or the hips? Why?   C. Sally, a 5-year-old child, was bitten on the hand by a bat that was later diagnosed with rabies. She was immediately treated after the bite but had to go through a series of more involved treatments after the rabies diagnosis in the bat that bit her. How does the rabies virus get to the brain from a simple hand wound?

All of the following will help the skin to fight infection but one. Which of the following will have little effect on the skin’s ability to fight infection?  

I do not need to attend the weekly zoom sessions on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 9:00 am. Is this statement true or false. 

There will be a total of six lecture exams throughout the course. Is this statement true or false? 

Describe the fluid mosaic model, as well as the structure and function. 

Compare and contrast anabolic reactions vs catabolic reactions. Give examples of each. 

BONUS POINTS –  Do not skip this question! Why do the isotopes of the same element have the same atomic size? Why do the isotopes of the same element have different mass numbers?