A Patient Who Had Been Experiencing Significant Stress Learned to Use

question 10

Multiple Choice

A patient who had been experiencing significant stress learned to use progressive muscle relaxation and deep breathing exercises. When the patient returns to the clinic 2 weeks later, which finding most clearly shows the patient is coping more effectively with stress?

• A) The patient's systolic blood pressure has changed from the 140s to the 120s mm Hg.
• B) The patient reports, "I feel better, and things are not bothering me as much."
• C) The patient reports, "I spend more time napping or sitting quietly at home."
• D) The patient's weight decreased by 3 pounds.

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Definitions:

Dominant Alleles

Alleles that mask the effect of other alleles for the same gene in heterozygous individuals, determining the phenotype.

Recessive Alleles

Genetic variations that must be present in two copies (homozygous) to express a trait, as opposed to dominant alleles that require only one copy.

Epistasis

An interaction between genes where the presence or absence of alleles of one gene influences the expression of another gene.

Alleles

Alleles are alternative forms of a gene that arise by mutation and are found at the same place on a chromosome, contributing to genetic variation in populations.