Koch's postulates are an example of

A) retrospective epidemiology
B) descriptive epidemiology
C) prospective epidemiology
D) experimental epidemiology


Ans: D) experimental epidemiology

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Major extinctions of dinosaurs are associated with large meteor impacts, including the final extinction that wiped them out at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary. The particulate matter that would have arisen as a result of impact would have entered the atmosphere and had secondary impacts. Some scientists believe that a fundamental difference between mammals and dinosaurs allowed mammals to survive this event, but doomed the dinosaurs. What may have characterized the last generation of dinosaurs as they went extinct?

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