INPUT ARTICLE: Article: If you notice symptoms of ulcers or open wounds in your cat's mouth, make an appointment for an oral exam with your vet. Your vet can tell you not only whether your cat has ulcers, but also may be able to pinpoint their cause. If your vet notices ulcers, they may ask for permission to perform x-rays and determine whether there is any additional damage to your cat's jaw. Let your vet know what symptoms you've noticed, including those that aren't directly related to mouth injuries, swelling, or bleeding. This may help your vet better diagnose underlying medical issues. Depending upon what your vet finds during the oral inspection, they may ask permission to run blood or urine tests to determine the cause of the ulcers. Allow your vet to run the tests, as this can help your vet determine the exact cause of your cat's ulcers and plan better treatment. Urine tests are generally not painful for cats, and blood tests cause only momentary discomfort. Ulcers can be symptomatic of other, more significant infections, diseases, and health issues with cats, including chronic kidney disease, feline viral rhinopneumonitis (FVR) and feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV). Proper diagnosis is necessary to lead to proper treatment and better health for your cat. If your vet diagnoses your cat with mouth ulcers or a mouth ulcer-causing condition, ask specific questions about care for your cat. Inquire, "Will my cat need surgery or other immediate treatment?" and, "What sort of long term care should I expect to provide for my cat?" Treatment of ulcers will depend greatly upon the cause of the ulcers. Follow your vet's recommendations closely and make appointments with them and with specialists as necessary. The ulcers themselves will probably be treated symptomatically with a mouth rinse and/or pain medication. The underlying cause for the ulcers will need to be treated as well to prevent more ulcers from forming.

SUMMARY: Make an appointment for an oral exam. Run diagnostic tests. Ask about care options.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Resting facial expressions aren't always a direct correlation of how you're feeling. Many people simply have a serious disposition. This creates an uninviting demeanor. Take a picture of your resting face and look at the expression. Would you be comfortable starting small-talk with someone who shared your expression? If you were on a bus and asked to introduce yourself to someone, would this expression be one to interact with? Looking at a picture of your face will produce biased feelings. The best way to get a sense of your true resting facial expression is to ask others. If comfortable, ask strangers. Your family and friends have grown accustomed to your face and can typically sum it up with, "it's just your face." Asking strangers what kind of emotion you convey through your face will give you the most truthful reactions. The easiest way to do this is to learn to wiggle your ears. Look in the mirror and start practicing. You'll likely notice that you raise your eyebrows, squint your eyes, and open and close your mouth a lot. These all use different facial muscles. Keep practicing until you can wiggle your ears because this shows awareness and control over your facial muscles. Knowing how to make small adjustments to your face will help you control muscles to create a pleasant expression. Nervous habits can prevent you from showing a pleasant facial expression. Biting your nails, or having a nervous facial tick can be seen as unprofessional because you look uninterested and distracted. If your facial tics, including nose wrinkling, eye blinking, squinting, grimacing, or mouth twitching, are a constant and uncontrollable issue, it is possible to reduce them overtime through hypnosis.

SUMMARY: Know how your face naturally rests. Ask other people. Learn to use the muscles of your face. Know your nervous habits.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: When you work your inner thighs, you need to decide how many reps you will do of each exercise. If you are a beginner, try starting with 15 to 20 reps for each exercise. If you are more advanced, shoot for 25 to 30 reps. Sets are the number of times you will complete your reps. Sets can either contain multiple exercises, or you can complete multiple sets of the same exercise before moving on to another exercise. For example, you may decide to do three sets of 15 reps of three to five inner thigh exercises. Alternately, you may complete three sets of 15 reps of wide squats before moving on to three sets of 15 reps of plank jacks. Generally, doing three to five sets is good, depending on your fitness level and number of reps. Part of working your inner thighs at home is figuring out how often you will work them. Three to four days each week of inner thigh exercises is a good number of workouts. However, spot training won't get you results. Combine these exercises with cardio, strength training, and healthy eating for the best results. You shouldn't work the same muscles every day, so place at least one rest day between your workouts.

SUMMARY: Choose a number of reps. Determine your number of sets. Create a weekly exercise plan.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Each allele will fit into the two boxes below it or to the right of it, depending on its placement. For example, if the allele B is in the horizontal top-left corner, write B in the two left boxes below. If the allele B is in the vertical top left corner, you must write B in the two boxes to the right. Continue to fill in the boxes with alleles until each box has two alleles, one from each parent. The convention is to always write the capital dominant allele first followed by the lowercase recessive allele. For our hair color example two brown-haired parents could either be BB or Bb. You would have to know their specific genotype. However, if the parent is blonde you know their genotype is the recessive bb. For a monohybrid cross, there are only three possible genotypes: BB, Bb, and bb. BB (brown hair) and bb (blonde hair) are homozygous for a gene meaning that they have two identical alleles for one gene. Bb (brown hair) are heterozygous meaning that they have two different alleles for the gene. Some crosses may only give you one or two genotypes. For our example, using the cross BB x Bb, the Punnett square would show the possibilities as two BB and two Bb. If you cross two homozygous parents with the same genotype (BB x BB or bb x bb) all of the genotypes will be homozygous (BB or bb). If you cross two homozygous parents with different genotypes, BB x bb, all of the genotypes will be Bb. If you cross a heterozygous with a homozygous parent (BB x Bb or bb x Bb), you will have two homozygotes (BB or bb) and two heterozygotes (Bb). If you cross two heterozygous parents, Bb x Bb, you will have two homozygotes (1 BB and 1 bb) and two heterozygotes (Bb) Using the counts from the previous step, you can determine the phenotype ratio. A phenotype is the physical characteristic of the gene, such as hair or eye color. Assuming the trait shows complete dominance, the heterozygous genotype (the cross showing dissimilar pairs of genes for a hereditary characteristic) will display the dominant phenotype. In the BB x Bb cross, the phenotypes will be four dominant brown-haired offspring (2 BB and 2 Bb) to zero recessive blonde-haired offspring (bb) so the ratio would be 4:0. 100% of the offspring will have brown hair, but 50% of them will be homozygous while the other 50% will be heterozygous.

SUMMARY:
Match the alleles together using the boxes as guides. Count the number of each genotype. Calculate the phenotype ratio.