Which term describes human pathogens?

A) Thermophiles
B) Mesophiles
C) Halophiles
D) Acidophiles
E) Psychrophiles


B) Mesophiles

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Which is the correct order of events during the inflammatory response?

A. Phagocytosis, margination, diapedesis, vasodilation B. Margination, vasodilation, diapedesis, phagocytosis C. Vasodilation, margination, diapedesis, phagocytosis D. Diapedesis, vasodilation, phagocytosis, margination

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Why is there a new reliance on metagenomics to find new organisms that may produce a medically or industrially important product? 

A. So far, only about 10% of useful microbes have been grown in the laboratory.  B. We do not have the techniques for growing most microbes found in nature.  C. Soils contain so many potential sources of microbes producing antibiotics it would take more than a century to screen them all.  D. All of these argue for the need to use metagenomics to identify new useful microbial products. 

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Uniparental disomy results when a child inherits

A) two recessive alleles for the same gene, one from each parent. B) two alleles for the same gene from one parent. C) one recessive allele from one parent. D) more than two alleles for the same gene from one parent.

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Refer to the accompanying figure. What label designates the auricles on this organism?


a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
e. 5

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