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PATHOPHYSIOLOGY EXAM ms




Exam Solution ms




Genetics NURG 533 Advance Pathophysiology McCance ms ms ms ms ms




and Huether 8th Edition Chapter 4 to 6 2026 A+ GRAD
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E ASSURED COMPLETE SOLUTIONS AND VERIFIED ANS
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WERS (789E5) ms




QUESTION 1 ms




Huntington disease ms




ANSWER

hereditary disorder marked by degenerative changes in the cerebrum leading to abrupt involuntary
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movements and mental deterioration autosomal dominant
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QUESTION 2 ms




Of the nitrogenous bases in DNA, adenine pairs with cytosine and guanine pairs with t
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hymine. True or False ms ms ms




ANSWER

False, Adenine pairs with thymine and guanine pairs with cytosine.
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QUESTION 3 ms




Translation occurs in the _____. ms ms ms ms




ANSWER

Ribosome Translation is the process by which mRNA interacts with transfer RNA (tRNA) in the ribo
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some and results in the formation of amino acid sequences that bind together to form polypeptides
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and eventually proteins.
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QUESTION 4 ms




True or False The 23rd pair of chromosomes contains the pair of sex chromosomes.
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,ANSWER

True, The pair of sex chromosomes makes up the 23rd pair of chromosomes. Males have XY chromo
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somes and females have XX chromosomes.
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QUESTION 5 ms




True or False, A male child receives the Y chromosome from his mother and the X chr
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omosome from his father. ms ms ms




ANSWER

False, A male child receives the X chromosome from his mother (females have XX chromosomes) an
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d the Y chromosome from his father (males have XY chromosomes).
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QUESTION 6 ms




True or False Mitosis is a type of cell division particular to reproduction.
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ANSWER

False, Meiosis is a type of cell division particular to reproduction (reproduction of the gametes: sper
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m and egg cells). Mitosis is the process by which the nucleus of a cell divides to create two nuclei,
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each containing an identical copy of DNA.
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QUESTION 7 ms




Polyploidy
ANSWER

Occurs when abnormal gametogenesis leads to the embryo having three (triploidy) or even four (tet
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raploidy) times the normal number of chromosomes. Triploidy and tetraploidy account for about 10
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% of miscarriages and are incompatible with survival of the fetus.
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QUESTION 8 ms




Euploid cell ms




ANSWER

A euploid cell or embryo has the normal 46 number of chromosomes, i.
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e. it is an exact multiple of a single set of the normal 23 unpaired chromosomes.
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QUESTION 9 ms




What is the difference between Euploidy and polyploidy?
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ANSWER

, Aneuploidy results from variations in the number of individual chromosomes (not sets), so that the
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chromosome number is not an exact multiple of the haploid set of chromosomes. Monoploidy and p
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olyploidy involve complete sets of chromosomes, and so both are cases of euploidy.
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QUESTION 10 ms




Aneuploidy results from what? ms ms ms




ANSWER

Aneuploidy results from variations in the number of individual chromosomes (not sets)
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QUESTION 11 ms




Forms of Aneuuploidy ms ms




ANSWER

The three most common forms of aneuploidy are Down syndrome, Turner syndrome, and Klinefelter
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syndrome.
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QUESTION 12 ms




Down syndrome characteristics
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ANSWER

upslanting eyes with inner epicanthal folds, flat nasal bridge, small broad flat nose, protruding thick
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tongue, ear dysplasia. Trisomy 21 Congenital heart disease and later development of Alzheimer symp
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toms Severe mental retardation
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QUESTION 13 ms




Turner Syndrome (45, X) ms ms ms




ANSWER

Nondisjunction during meiosis Monosomy X Clinical features - ms ms ms ms ms ms ms



short stature, webbed neck, cystic hygroma (neck swelling) at birth, primary amenorrhea (no perio
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d), gonadal dysgenesis, 'streak ovaries', Nevi (brown spots on body), wide set nipples, pedal edema
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at birth -
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many are mosaics (some cells = X, some XX or XXX). cells w/ 45, X have no Barr bodies Found only
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in Females
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QUESTION 14 ms




Klinefelter Syndrome (XXY) ms ms

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