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A 32-year-old man comes to the physician because fodifficulty breathing during the past 24 hours. He has ahistory fo recurrent cough and sinusitis. Duringan evaluation for infertility, he was recently foundto have an increased number fo immotile sperm. Physicalexamination shows clubbing of the fingers and tachypnea. Rhonchi and expiratory wheezes are heard bilaterally. ACT scan of the chest shows dilated airways with thickened walls in both lower lobes, and cardiac heterotaxia. An abnormality of which of the following cell components is the most likely cuase of these findings in this patient? A) Centrioles B) Cilia C) Gap junctions D) Microvilli E) Mitochondria F) Nucleus

A 32-year-old man comes to the physician because fodifficulty breathing during the past 24 hours. He has ahistory fo recurrent cough and sinusitis. Duringan evaluation for infertility, he was recently foundto have an increased number fo immotile sperm. Physicalexamination shows clubbing of the fingers and tachypnea. Rhonchi and expiratory wheezes are heard bilaterally. ACT scan of the chest shows dilated airways with thickened walls in both lower lobes, and cardiac heterotaxia. An abnormality of which of the following cell components is the most likely cuase of these findings in this patient? A) Centrioles B) Cilia C) Gap junctions D) Microvilli E) Mitochondria F) Nucleus

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A 32-year-old man comes to the physician because fodifficulty breathing during the past 24 hours. He has ahistory fo recurrent cough and sinusitis. Duringan evaluation for infertility, he was recently foundto have an increased number fo immotile sperm. Physicalexamination shows clubbing of the fingers and tachypnea. Rhonchi and expiratory wheezes are heard bilaterally. ACT scan of the chest shows dilated airways with thickened walls in both lower lobes, and cardiac heterotaxia. An abnormality of which of the following cell components is the most likely cuase of these findings in this patient? A) Centrioles B) Cilia C) Gap junctions D) Microvilli E) Mitochondria F) Nucleus
Transcribed Image Text:A 32-year-old man comes to the physician because fodifficulty breathing during the past 24 hours. He has ahistory fo recurrent cough and sinusitis. Duringan evaluation for infertility, he was recently foundto have an increased number fo immotile sperm. Physicalexamination shows clubbing of the fingers and tachypnea. Rhonchi and expiratory wheezes are heard bilaterally. ACT scan of the chest shows dilated airways with thickened walls in both lower lobes, and cardiac heterotaxia. An abnormality of which of the following cell components is the most likely cuase of these findings in this patient? A) Centrioles B) Cilia C) Gap junctions D) Microvilli E) Mitochondria F) Nucleus
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