Eight-Year-Old Hawthorne Has Several Accurate, Well-Developed Scripts, Including One for a Visit

question 140

Multiple Choice

Eight-year-old Hawthorne has several accurate, well-developed scripts, including one for a visit to the doctor's office. Which is the most likely example of her doctor's office script?

• A) Enter clinic, tell mom she feels better, sit in waiting room, see doctor, get shot (inoculation) in arm, cry
• B) Realizing that doctors earn money so that they can buy things
• C) Envisioning herself performing brain surgery on a patient
• D) Remembering that her favorite television show, ER, is also about doctors

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Definitions:

Eukaryotic Cell Cycle

A series of phases that eukaryotic cells go through for growth and division, including the stages of interphase (G1, S, G2) and mitosis or meiosis.

DNA Replication

The process by which a cell duplicates its DNA before it divides, ensuring that each daughter cell receives an exact copy of the DNA.

Homologous Pairs

Pairs of chromosomes that have the same structure and gene sequence, matching one inherited from each parent.

Meiosis I

The first division in meiosis, during which homologous chromosomes are separated, resulting in two daughter cells with half the number of chromosomes of the original cell.