Simon Kuznets Was

question 47

Multiple Choice

Simon Kuznets was

• A) a contemporary of Albert Einstein's who is responsible for the theory of economic relativity.
• B) the Secretary of the Treasury that helped pull the country out of the Great Depression.
• C) an award-winning hip-hop artist.
• D) the first economist to construct an overall measurement of the U.S. economy.

Identify the symptoms and causes of respiratory alkalosis.

Understand practices that prevent acid-base imbalances.

Analyze blood gas values to diagnose acid-base imbalances in patients with respiratory diseases.

Understand the impact of gastrointestinal fluid loss on acid-base balance.

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Definitions:

Directional Selection

A type of natural selection that favors individuals at one extreme end of the phenotypic range, leading to a shift in a population's genetic variance over time.

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Cladogram

Evolutionary tree diagram that visually summarizes a hypothesis about how a group of clades are related.

Cladogram

A diagram used in cladistics which shows relations among organisms based on shared derived characteristics.