If you were vaccinated against the mumps virus and later exposed to it, you would still be infected, but it would not be as bad as if you had never been vaccinated.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)


False

The purpose of a vaccination is to prevent an infection by causing active immunity.

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What will be an ideal response?

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A) spermatogonia and oogonia form. B) homologous chromosome pairs separate. C) homologous chromosome pairs join. D) the cell becomes diploid.

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Reverse transcriptase synthesizes

A. a negative RNA strand from a positive RNA strand. B. viral RNA from DNA. C. viral DNA from RNA. D. a positive RNA strand from a negative RNA strand.

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What is the risk that someone in the United States will die of cancer?

A. 1 in 50 B. 1 in 5 C. 1 in 7 D. 1 in 3

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