The nurse is assessing a patient’s skin during an office visit. what part of the hand and technique should be used to best assess the patient’s skin temperature?

Aphenotypically normal prospective couple seeks genetic counseling because the man knows that he has a translocation of a portion of his chromosome 4 that has been exchanged with a portion of his chromosome 12. although his translocation is balanced (meaning that he has all of the genetic material that he is supposed to - it is just in the wrong place), he and his wife want to know the probability that his sperm will be abnormal. what would you tell him about his sperm?