Answer and Explanation:
- Where (quadrant, etc.) will the doctor palpate Juan's abdomen?
<em>Under normal conditions in general the spleen can not be palped because of its reduced size. But when it is enlarged it might be easily touched. The spleen is located under the thoracic cage (rib cage) on the left side, between the 8th and 11th ribs. This would correspond to the left superior quadrant (left hemi-belly).</em>
- What other organs might be compressed by Juan's enlarged spleen?
<em>The enlargement of the spleen and the liver inflammation are symptoms of the mono disease. This enlargement might affect some neighboring organs such as the stomach, which might be displaced and compressed. </em>
- why is Juan's spleen enlarged and not his stomach or kidney?
<em>The spleen is part of the immunological system and helps the body to fight infections and filter old bloody cells taking them out of the blood current. This organ might get enlarged because blood cells accumulate in its interior. Red blood cells are excessively stored in the spleen, resulting in anemia. The more cells the spleen retains, the larger it becomes, and hence, the more blood cells it retains and destroys. If the spleen is unproperly working, it kills too many red blood cells and accumulates many others.</em>
The Stomach and kidney are not part of the immunity system and they do not filter blood cells, so they do not seem to be affected by their accumulation.
Answer:
e. Epistatic interaction of the two genes
Explanation:
The 9:7 ratio is typical of the Duplicate Recessive Epistasis.
The expected phenotypic ratiio of the offsrping of a dihybrid cross is:
9 A_B_
3 A_bb
3 aaB_
1 aabb
In the Duplicate Recessive Epistasis, the A_bb, aaB_ and aabb individuals all have the same phenotype, making for the ratio 9:7. What those three genotypes have in common is that in all of them at least one of the two genes is homozygous recessive (either <em>aa</em> or <em>bb</em>).
This usually happens one the products of genes A and B are enzymes of the same metabolic pathway.
Whenever both A and B are present, the pathway can produce the final product and a certain phenotype. However, if any of the dominant alleles is missing, the enzyme is not produced and therefore the final product of pathway is not produced, giving the other phenotype.
Answer:
transformation is carried out by random uptake of DNA, and transduction by a bacterial virus
Explanation:
Transformation and transduction are two of the three processes bacteria uses in genetic recombination (the third being conjugation). As rightly stated in the question, both processes establish that DNA is the genetic material of most living organisms and they both involve transfer and expression of DNA from cell to cell.
However, both processes are different in the way they get the foreign DNA into the bacteria cell.
- Transformation involves the random uptake of foreign extracellular DNA by the host bacterial cell.
- Transduction involves the transfer of foreign DNA into a bacteria cell via a virus called BACTERIOPHAGE. N.B: A bacteriophage is a virus that infects a bacteria host.
Answer:
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