The clinical nurse specialist educating staff about genetics and genomics would include which figures as central to the history of this specialty?
Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected.
Standard Text: Select all that apply.
1. James Watson
2. Joseph Lister
3. Gregory Mendel
4. Francis Collins
5. Francis Crick
1,3,4,5
Rationale 1: James Watson was half of the team that first described the structure of the DNA molecule
Rationale 2: Joseph Lister was instrumental in the support of medical asepsis.
Rationale 3: Gregory Mendel is known as the father of genetics for his scientific study of inheritance patterns in the mid-1800s.
Rationale 4: Dr. Francis Collins was a leader in the project to sequence the human genome.
Rationale 5: Francis Crick was half of the team that first described the structure of the DNA molecule.
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