The fraction of a population who die from a specific disease is called

A. mortality rate.
B. morbidity rate.
C. attack rate.
D. incidence rate.


A

Biology & Microbiology

You might also like to view...

Formylmethionine is the first amino acid in proteins in ____

a. Archaea only b. Bacteria only c. both Archaea and Bacteria d. neither Archaea nor Bacteria e. Archaea, Bacteria and Eukarya

Biology & Microbiology

The four most abundant elements needed by the human body are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. Because these are needed in large amounts to support our cells, these are referred to as

A. buffers. B. bulk elements. C. essential elements. D. trace elements. E. isotopes.

Biology & Microbiology

The figure is a photomicrograph of

a. a nucleus. b. a Golgi body. c. endoplasmic reticulum. d. a vacuole. e. a nucleoid.

Biology & Microbiology

Similar body parts are not always homologous

They may have evolved independently in separate lineages as adaptations to the same a. reproductive isolation of these groups. b. environmental pressures. c. reduced genetic variability in these groups. d. identical genes in all three groups. e. factor as all of these.

Biology & Microbiology