What is the purpose of white adipose tissue?
What will be an ideal response?
To provide a major source of energy for resting skeletal muscle and many other body tissues
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A) cadherins B) proteoglycans C) pectins D) connexins E) lectins
Which of the following statements regarding Campylobacter jejuni is incorrect?
A. It produces an enterotoxin that stimulates diarrhea. B. It infects the stomach. C. It is transmitted through ingestion of contaminated chicken, meat, milk, or water. D. It causes fever and a watery to bloody diarrhea. E. The cells are gram-negative, curved rods with darting motility.
Suppose you use a dissecting microscope to observe organisms that have colonized discs of densely packed, fibrous wood (Masonite plates) that have been submerged in 6 inches of lake water for 8 weeks. You see insect cases (protective shelters), insect
larvae, and newly emerged insects with wings. You determine that you are looking at an insect species A) that undergoes incomplete metamorphosis. B) that undergoes complete metamorphosis. C) with a body plan of radial symmetry. D) with incomplete digestive tracts.
A pathogen is a disease-causing organism, but not all pathogens are alike. Some pathogens are more dangerous than others. When describing the relative ability of a pathogen to cause disease, we are considering its ________
A) emergence B) infectivity C) virulence D) pathogenicity