In guinea pigs, short hair, S, is dominant to long hair, s….
In guinea pigs, short hair, S, is dominant to long hair, s. Parent 1 is heterozygous dominant for short hair and parent 2 is homozygous recessive for long hair With the aid of a Punnett square, indicate the genotypes of the parents, and of the offspring, including their chances of having an offspring with short hair and offspring with long hair.
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BONUS: A patient who has had a recent pulmonary infection has been sent by his physician to undergo a complete pulmonary function test (PFT). He states he is still coughing small amount of sputum and has not reached his full exertional capacity. Which of the following PFT findings would be expected if he still had some residual infection? I. increased FEV1 II. increased FVC III. decreased DLCO IV. decreased IC
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Leonard Bean, is a 43 year old male who lives in west Texas arid region presents in the ED with rapidly spreading multilobar consolidation. He cools his home with a “swamp-cooling” air conditioner. This is typical for what type of pneumonia?
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Tapenja Lott is a 44 year old lighting consultant with no history of lung disease. Over the last several days she has experienced increasing dyspnea, malaise and productive cough. She presented to the emergency department with the following VS: HR 136 bpm, B/P 138/84, RR 26 bpm which are shallow with mild to moderate accessory muscle use, temp 39.8 C. Breath sounds reveal bilateral inspiratory and expiratory crackles, CXR reveals large areas of RLL and RML consolidation. She has been diagnosed with pneumonia. ABGs are drawn on an FiO2 of 0.28:pH 7.51PaCO2 28 torrPaO2 43 torrHCO3 20 mEq/LSaO2 68%Which of the following best describes her arterial blood gas?
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