Unit 1
This is the direction that DNA travels in gel electrophoresis.
This is the condition when part of one chromosome breaks off and attaches to another.
What is translocation?
These white blood cells produce antibodies to surround pathogens and alert other immune cells.
What are B-cells?
This is the name of the structure that can be inserted to open a narrow blood vessel.
What is a stent?
A patient presents with the following vitals: 118/72 mmHg, 96 bpm, 92% SpO2, 98 degrees. This is the instrument that is showing the abnormal reading.
What is the pulse oximeter?
These vessels bring oxygenated blood to the heart.
What are the pulmonary veins?
During this phase of meiosis, chromosomes are visible and undergo crossing over to create genetic diversity.
What is prophase I?
This type of pathogen infects a host cell and uses its machinery to produce more copies of itself.
What is a virus?
This is the organ responsible for digesting chyme and absorbing nutrients.
What is the small intestine?
In this step of protein synthesis, an amino acid chain is created using tRNA reading the codons of mRNA at the ribosome.
What is translation?
This valve keeps blood from moving back into the right ventricle.
What is the pulmonary valve?
This is the probability of two heterozygous parents with an autosomal dominant disorder having a child with the same disorder.
What is 75%
These are three signs of a life-threatening bleed.
What is blood pooling, blood spurting, confusion or loss of consciousness, rapid pulse, cold skin, blue skin?
These are the two enteral routes for medication.
What is orally and rectally?
This shows the ratio of red blood cells to total blood volume.
What is a hematocrit?
This condition is caused by the pooling of blood after the heart stops.
What is livor mortis?
Familial hypercholesterolemia involves a mutation of the LDL receptors found on this organ.
What is the liver?
This is characterized by the amount of patients you are able to handle when there is a medical emergency or catastrophic event.
What is surge capacity?
This is the one-word term for the condition in which narrowing of the arteries and blood clotting is caused by build up of fatty plaques.
What is atherosclerosis?
This is the counter-stain agent that makes Gram positive bacteria visible.
What is safranin?
This is the average rate at which a body cools post-mortem.
What is 1.5 degrees (C or F) per hour?
Neurofibromatosis type 1 is characterized by these three distinct symptoms.
What are benign tumors, Lisch nodules, and Cafe Au Lait spots?
This is the full name of the pathogen known as MRSA.
What is methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus?
These are the two common arteries used for inserting a catheter for angioplasty.
What are the radial artery and the femoral artery?
A young patient presents to the ER with severe stridor. This is the appropriate response.
What is check the airway for an obstruction or injury?