AMNH: GENETIC AND GENOMIC IN NURSING: TEST QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
1) Lethal cardiac arrhythmia with long QT -- Answer ✔✔ Torsade de Pointes
2) How do genetic counselors provide emetic information to pts and families in a no
directive manner -- Answer ✔✔ Presenting all facts and available options in a
manner that neither promotes nor excludes any legally permitted decision or
action
3) What is the most accurate classification of the common forms of CAD and HTN
-- Answer ✔✔ Complex disorders resulting from gene environment interactions
4) Juliet tells a nurse that she has 3 aunts who were diagnosed with great cancer.
She asks if she should have genetic testing. -- Answer ✔✔ Your family history
may indicate an increased risk for breath cancer and a genetic counselor could
help determine whether you could benefit from genetic testing
5) An 85 yr old pt stress that she does not perform breast self-exam because there
is not history of breast cancer in her family. What is the best response. --
Answer ✔✔ Breast cancer can be found more frequently in some families
however the risk for general non-familiar breast cancer increases with age.
, 6) Your pt Maggie insist that her mother have genetic testing to determine if her
breast cancer is connected to a mutation in the BRCA1/2 genes. Maggie is
concerned about her own risk for getting breast cancer and that of her children,
but Maggie's mom does not want to be tested. What ethical principle is one of
several that must be considered in evaluation this case -- Answer ✔✔ Maggie's
mother right to pricaxy
7) How are malignant rumors different from benign tumors -- Answer ✔✔ Benign
tumors have totally normal features, and malignant tumors have totally abnormal
features
8) Which condition provided the greatest support for a strong genetic contribution
to autism spectrum disorder -- Answer ✔✔ Concordance among dizygotic twins
is 10 %
9) What statement regarding behavioral genetic is accurate -- Answer ✔✔ A
genetic predisposition toward a specific behavior can be modified by altering
environment influence
10) What is the result of mutation occurring in a suppressor gene -- Answer ✔✔
Loss of an existing function
11) What would be the expected response to a skin injury if the involved tissue has
lost the normal cell characteristic of contact inhibition -- Answer ✔✔ Excessive
growth of replacement tissue
12) Pts response to normal drug dose that because of a genetic variation in an
enzyme that prepares the drug for elimination results in a blood drug level that is
below the minimum effective concentration -- Answer ✔✔ The intended
response fails to be produced
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
1) Lethal cardiac arrhythmia with long QT -- Answer ✔✔ Torsade de Pointes
2) How do genetic counselors provide emetic information to pts and families in a no
directive manner -- Answer ✔✔ Presenting all facts and available options in a
manner that neither promotes nor excludes any legally permitted decision or
action
3) What is the most accurate classification of the common forms of CAD and HTN
-- Answer ✔✔ Complex disorders resulting from gene environment interactions
4) Juliet tells a nurse that she has 3 aunts who were diagnosed with great cancer.
She asks if she should have genetic testing. -- Answer ✔✔ Your family history
may indicate an increased risk for breath cancer and a genetic counselor could
help determine whether you could benefit from genetic testing
5) An 85 yr old pt stress that she does not perform breast self-exam because there
is not history of breast cancer in her family. What is the best response. --
Answer ✔✔ Breast cancer can be found more frequently in some families
however the risk for general non-familiar breast cancer increases with age.
, 6) Your pt Maggie insist that her mother have genetic testing to determine if her
breast cancer is connected to a mutation in the BRCA1/2 genes. Maggie is
concerned about her own risk for getting breast cancer and that of her children,
but Maggie's mom does not want to be tested. What ethical principle is one of
several that must be considered in evaluation this case -- Answer ✔✔ Maggie's
mother right to pricaxy
7) How are malignant rumors different from benign tumors -- Answer ✔✔ Benign
tumors have totally normal features, and malignant tumors have totally abnormal
features
8) Which condition provided the greatest support for a strong genetic contribution
to autism spectrum disorder -- Answer ✔✔ Concordance among dizygotic twins
is 10 %
9) What statement regarding behavioral genetic is accurate -- Answer ✔✔ A
genetic predisposition toward a specific behavior can be modified by altering
environment influence
10) What is the result of mutation occurring in a suppressor gene -- Answer ✔✔
Loss of an existing function
11) What would be the expected response to a skin injury if the involved tissue has
lost the normal cell characteristic of contact inhibition -- Answer ✔✔ Excessive
growth of replacement tissue
12) Pts response to normal drug dose that because of a genetic variation in an
enzyme that prepares the drug for elimination results in a blood drug level that is
below the minimum effective concentration -- Answer ✔✔ The intended
response fails to be produced
