Which of the following is true of the human microbiome?
A) High blood sugar following weight-loss surgery is partly due to a changed gut microbiome.
B) An altered microbiome hastens starvation in malnourished children.
C) Antibiotics do not alter the gut microbiome.
D) The microbiome consists primarily of cells that belong to the human body.
B) An altered microbiome hastens starvation in malnourished children.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
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What key research question was addressed by King and others while studying sponges?
A. Do the genes of sponges contain information that might explain the rapid evolution of animal groups during the Cambrian explosion? B. How similar is the DNA of living marine sponges to that of fossil sponges from the Cambrian? C. Why were the sponges an evolutionary dead end, with little change and diversity since the Cambrian? D. Did sponges survive the precambrian mass extinction, with genes unique from other animal groups? E. Were the sponges the last common ancestor of eumetazoans?
Similar families of organisms are next grouped together in the same:a
class b. order c. genus d. phylum e. kingdom