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48 Cards in this Set
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Which modern day cell is probably mst closely related to the original common ancestor?
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Archaeon
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What is the life cycle that requires multiplication in side another cell?
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Bdellovibrio
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Who proposed the Endosymbiont hypothesis?
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Lynn Marguiles
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Who first proposed the idea of the common ancestor?
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Charles Darwin
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Which part of the mushroom consists of differential cells produced under stress?
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Fruiting Body
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Which of the following is not from horizontal gene transfer:
a. Conjugation b. Transformation c. Transposition d. Transduction |
transposition
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Archea, Eukarya and Bacteria are all part of the three ___ of life.
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domains
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What percentage of Thermotaga maritima's genes are from the Archea?
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25%
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The Haantan Virus Disease outbreak in the USA's Four Corners Region in 1993 are similar to
A. the 1918 Flu B. Salmonellosis C. English Sweating Sickness D. A and C |
A and C
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What is the largest human organ?
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The Skin
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What is the human organ with the greatest concentration of microbes?
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The Intestins
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Which of the following describes the microbe Lactobacillus reuteri?
a.Familiar Enemy b.Lethal Stranger c.Opportunist d.Probiotic |
Familiar Enemy
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Which of the following best describes the Ebola virus?
A. Familiar Enemy B. Lethal Stranger C. Opportunist D. Probiotic |
Lethal Stranger
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Which commander conquered all because he demanded his soldiers boil their drinking water?
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Alexander the Great
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Which commander lost his army to typhus, dysentery and the cold, in Russian winter?
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Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Which did Mary Mallon spread to whomever she cooked for?
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Typhoid
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What disease was proven microbially-caused after Dr. Barry Marshall drank swamp water?
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Peptic Ulcers
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Which respiratory disease is spread from birds to people?
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Psittocosis
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Which tick-bourne disease causes a bull's eye rash that can lead to arthritis-like disease?
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Lyme disease
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Which disease(s) have changed human social and cultural history?
a.smallpox b.rabies c.plague d.a and b e.a and c |
a and c
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Which tick borne disease should be of greatest concern to North Carolinians?
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Rocky Mountain Spotted Feaver
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Which water-bourne disease is resistant to chlorination and standard water treatment?
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Cryptosporidiosis
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Which diseases have co evolved through time along with their hosts?
A. Myxovirus B. Plague C. Malaria D.A and B E. A and C |
A and C
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T or F
The organelles of eukaryotic cells may have started out as prokaryotic cells? |
T
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T or F
A mitochondrian makes energy efficiently by reducing its membrane surface area? |
F
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T or F
Flagella of eukaryotes may have started out as bacterial spirochetes. |
T
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T or F
Chloroplasts of plant cells may have started originally been cyanobacteria? |
T
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T or F
Vertical gene transfer occurs within the same generation? |
F
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T or F
Horizontal gene transfer occurs only between members of the same species. |
F
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T or F
The genome of THERMOTOGA MARITIMA is completely bacterial? |
F
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T or F
Bacteria can move genes horizontally with each other, but not with members of other domains? |
F
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T or F
The Four Corners Haantan virus disease outbreak of 1993 declined as the weather changed? |
F
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T or F
The Haantan Virus normally causes disease in rodents? |
F
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T or F
There are ten times as many cells living on humans than humans themselves consist of? |
T
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T or F
The microbes Streptococcus mutans and Porphyromonas gingivialis cause disease whenever they are present in the mouth? |
F
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T or F
Probiotics work by specifically killing desease causing microbes? |
F
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T or F
Napoleon is remembered as a great general because he understood microbiology? |
F
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T or F
As long as the outer shell of the egg is disinfected first, you can use raw eggs in Caesar salads and ice cream? |
F
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T or F
Salmonella bacteria get their name from salmon, the fish they were first isolated from? |
F
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T or F
Typhoid can only by caught from contaminated people ro food, since it does not survive long in the environment. |
F
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T or F
It was assumed for many years that peptic ulcers were caused by spicy foods and stress before Helicobacter Pylori was shown to generate stomach incflammation.? |
T
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T or F
George Washington inoculated himself to keep from catching smallpox. |
F
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T or F
Edward Jenner invented vaccination by using the cowpox virus to prevent smallpox? |
T
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T or F
John Snow provented the spread of cholera by having people boil their drinking water. |
F
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T or F
Human cases of diseases spread by biting insects( ie: Lyme) increase in the winter. |
F
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T or F
AIDS can be prevented in the unborn by treating HIV + mothers with HIV anti-virals. |
T
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T or F
Rabies is controlled by vaccinating pet animals |
T
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T or F
People with sickle cell anemia are more likely to survive a malaria infection. |
T
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