Huether Mccance Pathophysiology Exam A+ Grade Assured Complete Solutions And Verified Answers

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Genetics NURG 533 Advance Pathophysiology McCance vc vc vc vc vc vc




and Huether 8th Edition Chapter 4 to 6 2026 A+ GRADE
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QUESTION 1 vc




Huntington disease vc




ANSWER

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




Of the nitrogenous bases in DNA, adenine pairs with cytosine and guanine pairs with thy
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mine. True or False vc vc vc




ANSWER

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




Translation occurs in the _____. vc vc vc vc




ANSWER

Ribosome Translation is the process by which mRNA interacts with transfer RNA (tRNA) in the ribosom
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e and results in the formation of amino acid sequences that bind together to form polypeptides and eve
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QUESTION 4 vc




True or False The 23rd pair of chromosomes contains the pair of sex chromosomes.
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True, The pair of sex chromosomes makes up the 23rd pair of chromosomes. Males have XY chromosom
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es and females have XX chromosomes.
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QUESTION 5 vc




True or False, A male child receives the Y chromosome from his mother and the X chrom
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ANSWER

False, A male child receives the X chromosome from his mother (females have XX chromosomes) and th
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e Y chromosome from his father (males have XY chromosomes).
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QUESTION 6 vc




True or False Mitosis is a type of cell division particular to reproduction.
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False, Meiosis is a type of cell division particular to reproduction (reproduction of the gametes: sperm a
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nd egg cells). Mitosis is the process by which the nucleus of a cell divides to create two nuclei, each cont
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aining an identical copy of DNA.
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QUESTION 7 vc




Polyploidy
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Occurs when abnormal gametogenesis leads to the embryo having three (triploidy) or even four (tetrapl
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oidy) times the normal number of chromosomes. Triploidy and tetraploidy account for about 10% of mi
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scarriages and are incompatible with survival of the fetus.
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QUESTION 8 vc




Euploid cell vc




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 vc




What is the difference between Euploidy and polyploidy?
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, Aneuploidy results from variations in the number of individual chromosomes (not sets), so that the chro
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mosome number is not an exact multiple of the haploid set of chromosomes. Monoploidy and polyploidy
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involve complete sets of chromosomes, and so both are cases of euploidy.
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QUESTION 10 vc




Aneuploidy results from what? vc vc vc




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




Forms of Aneuuploidy vc vc




ANSWER

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




Down syndrome characteristics
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upslanting eyes with inner epicanthal folds, flat nasal bridge, small broad flat nose, protruding thick ton
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gue, ear dysplasia. Trisomy 21 Congenital heart disease and later development of Alzheimer symptoms
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Severe mental retardation
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QUESTION 13 vc




Turner Syndrome (45, X) vc vc vc




ANSWER

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



short stature, webbed neck, cystic hygroma (neck swelling) at birth, primary amenorrhea (no period), g
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onadal dysgenesis, 'streak ovaries', Nevi (brown spots on body), wide set nipples, pedal edema 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 in F
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QUESTION 14 vc




Klinefelter Syndrome (XXY) vc vc




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