The level of carbon dioxide in the blood affects the breathing rate. it also affects the heart rate. how would you expect high levels of carbon dioxide to affect the heart rate?

Spherocytosis is an inherited blood disease in which the erythrocytes (red blood cells) are spherical instead of biconcave. this condition is inherited in a dominant fashion, with sph- dominant to sph+. in people with spherocytosis, the spleen "reads" the spherical red blood cells as defective, and it removes them from the bloodstream, leading to anemia. the spleen in different people removes the spherical erythrocytes with different efficiencies. some people with spherical erythrocytes suffer severe anemia and some mild anemia, yet others have spleens that function so poorly there are no symptoms of anemia at all. when 2400 people with the genotype sph- sph+ were examined, it was found that 2250 had anemia of varying severity, but 150 had no symptoms. does this description of people with spherocytosis represent incomplete penetrance, variable expressivity, or both? explain your answer. (3 points)

David, an aspiring baseball player, was struck on the left side of his face with a fastball pitch. he was not wearing a safety helmet. his zygomatic arch was crushed, as well as parts of the temporal bone. following the accident and reconstructive surgery, he noted that his left lower eyelid was still drooping and the corner of his mouth sagged. what nerve damage did he sustain?

One hospital ceo insists on including performance data in the hospital’s annual report. “we do very well on most measures, except for one or two, but we put those in anyway,” she says. “we want to hold ourselves accountable.” does this practice demonstrate effective or ineffective leadership?