Describe how a rhinovirus, which attacks only cells lining the upper respiratory tract, can make a person feel miserable all over

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a. Platyhelminthes b. Mollusca c. Nematoda d. Cnidaria e. Porifera

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Most chytrids are ____

a. saprobes in soil b. parasites of plants c. symbiotic partners of cattle and other herbivores d. parasites of animals e. aquatic

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Place the following organisms in order of appearance in the fossil record, beginning with the earliest

A. ferns, algae, flowering plants, gymnosperms B. amphibians, reptiles, fish, mammals What will be an ideal response?

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Deliberate infection of young children with particles of ground smallpox scabs from children who had survived mild cases of smallpox was known as (vaccination/variolation/immunization)

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