Please Read the Clinical Scenario, and Then Answer the Question

question 12

Multiple Choice

Please read the clinical scenario, and then answer the question that follow to become familiar with the traditional NCLEX question format.
A 67-year-old patient with severe sepsis undergoes a full infectious workup upon admittance to the intensive care unit. Cultures of urine, blood, sputum, and cerebral spinal fluid are obtained. The cultures do not yield a specific organism, so further analysis of the sample is done to determine the characteristics of the microorganism. The metabolic processes are analyzed in the lab.
-The organism sample is further tested and found to grow in the absence of oxygen.Which of three main pathways of catabolism may this organism utilize to produce energy in the absence of free oxygen?

• A)aerobic respiration and fermentation
• B)anaerobic respiration and aerobic respiration
• C)fermentation and anaerobic respiration
• D)aerobic respiration,anaerobic respiration,and fermentation

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Definitions:

Overhead Cost

Costs that are not directly associated with the manufacture of products or the provision of services, including expenditures like rent, utilities, and office supplies.

Activity Cost Pools

Activity cost pools are categories of overhead expenses used in activity-based costing to allocate costs accurately within a company.

Activity-Based Costing

A costing method that assigns overhead and indirect costs to specific activities, providing a more accurate reflection of the costs to produce goods or services.

Overhead Cost

Indirect costs related to the overall operations of a company that cannot be directly attributed to a specific product or service.