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The Nurse Is Teaching a Class to the Community on Mind-Based

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The nurse is teaching a class to the community on mind-based therapies. A class participant gives an example of a friend with leukemia who was taught by her complementary therapist to concentrate on making antibodies that will fight and kill the cancer cells in the bloodstream. How would the nurse identify this technique?


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Genome

The complete set of genes or genetic material present in a cell or organism.

Codominance

A genetic scenario where two alleles of a gene pair in a heterozygote are fully expressed, resulting in offspring with a phenotype that is neither dominant nor recessive.

Allele

Alternative form of a gene; a gene pair contains two alleles.

Dominant Gene

A gene that expresses its phenotype over another gene (the recessive gene) when the two are present in a heterozygous condition.

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