A 25-year-old woman is in early labor. After delivering the baby (by a normal vaginal delivery), the patient asks the doctor about some symptoms she had during pregnancy, including discharge and painful urination
She has a history of multiple sex partners and very rarely used condoms. You suspect a potential STD is the cause. The biggest risk at this point is ________. A) There is no major risk at this point.
B) to the mother; an untreated STD is almost always fatal
C) to the baby; he or she can be infected while moving through the birth canal
D) to the mother; she may become infertile
C
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a. concentration gradient b. diffusion gradient c. active transport gradient d. facilitated gradient
In cats the allele B produces black, whereas b
produces yellow. Neither gene is dominant, and in the heterozygous state the phenotype is a combination of yellow and black spots called tortoiseshell. The alleles B and b are X-linked. If a tortoiseshell cat has three tortoiseshell kittens and two black kittens, give the genotype and phenotype of the tomcat that produced them, and give the sex of the kittens. What will be an ideal response?
The _____ consists of three layers: the endometrium, the myometrium, and the perimetrium.
A. uterus B. vagina C. clitoris D. ovaries
Which of the following levels of organization is least complex?
a) organ b) tissues c) organ system d) cells