The disease bovine spongiform encephalopathy is also known as
A) kuru.
B) scrapie.
C) Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
D) mad cow disease.
Ans: D) mad cow disease.
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In some organisms, the primary function of a gene in a cell is to participate in regulating the body as a whole rather than responding to the cell's immediate environment. These organisms would be
A. multicellular. B. diploid. C. bacterial. D. prokaryotic.
_____ are to proteins as _____ are to nucleic acids
a. Sugars; lipids c. Amino acids; hydrogen bonds b. Sugars; proteins d. Amino acids; nucleotides
Biotechnology can best be defined as using living organisms to
a) clean up pollution. b) develop useful products. c) treat sewage. d) control pests.
A patient has a staphylococcal infection of the blood; a septicemia - very serious and possibly deadly. As the doctor, you would like to prescribe a relatively non-toxic and inexpensive drug out of the cephalosporin family. However, if the patient harbors a strain of Staphylococcus that is resistant to a variety of antibiotics, you would prefer to use vancomycin-- which is highly effective against Staphylococcus. Which of the following explains why the cephalosporin drug is preferred for use over the vancomycin?
A. Vancomycin is very toxic, and the Staphylococcus strain could become resistant leaving no back-up drugs with which to treat the infection. B. You really do not know that much about vancomycin, so you would rather go with a drug that you can find out more about. C. You would rather give an inexpensive drug to save the family money. D. Vancomycin is one of the most selectively toxic drugs there is, so you would prefer one that has a more broad-spectrum effect.