Justify why clinical medicine has an interest in understanding bacterial cell division at the molecular level
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Answers will vary, but one principle of thought is that to prevent cell growth, the mechanisms involved in normal cell growth must first be understood. For example, if bacterial proteins A and B must bind together for a cell to proliferate and cause disease, a drug could be developed to irreversibly bind and disrupt bacterial protein A from being functional. Consequently, an infection could be (therapeutically) killed from a human.
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A. 0.1 g B. 1 g C. 10 g D. 1,000 g E. 10,000 g
Which one of the following statements is true regarding antimicrobial therapy and susceptibility testing?
a. Cephalosporins and macrolides are inef-fective against M. catarrhalis. b. Resistance to quinolones is emerging in strains of N. gonorrhoeae. c. Most Neisseria spp. are resistant to peni-cillin. d. Most strains of N. meningitidis are resis-tant to penicillin.
Which bond term describes a covalent bond in which electrons are shared unequally?
A.) polar B.) hydrogen C.) ionic D.) nonpolar
Features that have been retained by reptiles from the time they replaced the amphibians as the dominant terrestrial vertebrates include all of the following, except
A. dry skin. B. thoracic breathing. C. endothermy. D. reoriented appendages. E. the amniotic egg.