While chasing colorful marshmallows around your bowl of breakfast cereal with a spoon and contemplating the symptoms of ergot, you overhear a cable news report issue a rare retraction: The patients in the American Southwest previously reported to have been infected with tuberculosis have tested positive for a fungal, not bacterial, infection. Which fungus is most likely responsible?
a. Malassezia furfur (Tinea versicolor)
b. Candida albicans (Thrush)
c. Coccidioides immitis (Valley Fever)
d. Claviceps purpurea (Ergot)
c. Coccidioides immitis (Valley Fever)
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A dense, irregularly shaped region within the nucleus in which subunits of ribosomes are synthesized is called the:
a. plastid b. vacuole c. microvillus d. nucleolus e. basal body
Which of the following is part of the appendicular skeleton?
a. The sacrum b. The sternum c. The pelvic girdle d. The hyoid bone
Which is incorrect about meiosis?
A. Sister chromatids separate in anaphase I. B. Meiosis I results in 2 haploid cells. C. Meiosis II is like mitosis. D. Chromosome replication only occurs in interphase I. E. Crossing over occurs in prophase I.