The Nursing Instructor Is Teaching Student Nurses About Lower Gastrointestinal

question 12

Multiple Choice

The nursing instructor is teaching student nurses about lower gastrointestinal (GI) functioning and the large intestine. The nursing instructor evaluates learning has occurred when the students make which statement?

• A) "Food travels through the large intestine for 3 to 6 hours."
• B) "The large intestine contains host flora that manufacture vitamin E."
• C) "The large intestine absorbs most of the nutrients from food."
• D) "The large intestine absorbs water and eliminates stool."

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Definitions:

Molecular Phylogeny

The analysis of the molecular structure of DNA, RNA, or protein sequences to determine genetic relationships and evolutionary histories among different species.

Amino Acids

Organic compounds serving as the building blocks of proteins, crucial for life and involved in various metabolic processes.

Orthologs

Genes in different species that evolved from a common ancestral gene by speciation and retain the same function in the course of evolution.

Homoplasy

Homoplasy refers to a phenomenon in evolutionary biology where similar traits or structures arise independently in different lineages, not due to common ancestry.