BURNS PEDIATRIC PRIMARY CARE 7TH
EDITION TEST BANK QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED ANSWERS EXAM PREP
◉ What is true about Haploid Cells Answer: Each one contains 23
chromosomes
◉ What does the following genetic notation symbol mean 47,XX,6q?
Answer: Female with a deletion on the long arm of chromosome 6
◉ A child has a recessive genetic disorder that is homozygous for that
mutation. What is most likely true about this child's parents? Answer:
Each parent has one copy of the gene mutation.
◉ Which type of mutation is responsible for many single gene genetic
disorders? Answer: Point mutations
◉ Cytic fibrosis is a recessive disease requiring the presence of a
gene mutation on both alleles inherited from the parents. Which type
of genetic disorder is this? Answer: Monogenetic
◉ The primary care nurse pediatric nurse practitioner is counseling a
couple about genetic risks and learns that one parent has
neurofibromatosis, an autosomal dominant disorder, and the other
does not. What will the nurse practitioner include when discussing
, this disorder and its transmission? Answer: Each child born to this
couple will have a 50% risk of having the disease.
◉ A family history conducted during a well baby exam for a newborn
girl reveals that hemophilia A, an x linked recessive disorder, is
present in males in three previous generations in the mother's family,
whos father had the disease. What will the pediatric nurse practitioner
tell the parents about the risks of this disease in their children?
Answer: Daughters have only a 50% chance of being carriers of the
disease
◉ What is an important responsibility of the primary care pediatric
nurse practitioner to help determine genetic risk factors in families?
Answer: Obtain a three generation pedigree for each family.
◉ Which diagnositic study may be ordered when the provider wishes
to detect the prevalence of additional genetic material on a
chromosome? Answer: FISH
◉ Which type of counseling will the pimary care pediatric nurse
practitioner recommend for a couple concerned about the potential for
having children with cystic fibrosis? Answer: Carrier testing
◉ Genetic symbol q Answer: Long arm chromosome
◉ Genetic symbol p Answer: Short armed chromosome
EDITION TEST BANK QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED ANSWERS EXAM PREP
◉ What is true about Haploid Cells Answer: Each one contains 23
chromosomes
◉ What does the following genetic notation symbol mean 47,XX,6q?
Answer: Female with a deletion on the long arm of chromosome 6
◉ A child has a recessive genetic disorder that is homozygous for that
mutation. What is most likely true about this child's parents? Answer:
Each parent has one copy of the gene mutation.
◉ Which type of mutation is responsible for many single gene genetic
disorders? Answer: Point mutations
◉ Cytic fibrosis is a recessive disease requiring the presence of a
gene mutation on both alleles inherited from the parents. Which type
of genetic disorder is this? Answer: Monogenetic
◉ The primary care nurse pediatric nurse practitioner is counseling a
couple about genetic risks and learns that one parent has
neurofibromatosis, an autosomal dominant disorder, and the other
does not. What will the nurse practitioner include when discussing
, this disorder and its transmission? Answer: Each child born to this
couple will have a 50% risk of having the disease.
◉ A family history conducted during a well baby exam for a newborn
girl reveals that hemophilia A, an x linked recessive disorder, is
present in males in three previous generations in the mother's family,
whos father had the disease. What will the pediatric nurse practitioner
tell the parents about the risks of this disease in their children?
Answer: Daughters have only a 50% chance of being carriers of the
disease
◉ What is an important responsibility of the primary care pediatric
nurse practitioner to help determine genetic risk factors in families?
Answer: Obtain a three generation pedigree for each family.
◉ Which diagnositic study may be ordered when the provider wishes
to detect the prevalence of additional genetic material on a
chromosome? Answer: FISH
◉ Which type of counseling will the pimary care pediatric nurse
practitioner recommend for a couple concerned about the potential for
having children with cystic fibrosis? Answer: Carrier testing
◉ Genetic symbol q Answer: Long arm chromosome
◉ Genetic symbol p Answer: Short armed chromosome
