A baseball player refuses to wash his uniform during a winning streak because he believes leaving it intact is helping his team win. What is wrong with this logic?
A. Availability bias
B. Predictable-world bias
C. Confirmation bias
D. Over-optimism bias
Answer: B
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_______1. ____________________ is a virulence factor that is found in (and released from) the cell walls of Gram-negative bacteria. _______2. The molecules on the surfaces of host cells that pathogens are able to recognize and attach to are known as receptors or ____________________. _______3. Molecules on the surfaces of pathogens that are able to recognize and bind to molecules on the surfaces of host cells are known as ligands or ____________________. _______4. ____________________ is also known as “spreading factor.” _______5. ____________________ are toxins that destroy white blood cells. a. adhesins b. endotoxin c. hyaluronidase d. integrins e. leukocidins
Where does the primary uptake of water and mineral ions from the soil occur?
a. in the root hairs b. in the pericycle c. in the endodermis d. in the quiescent centre
You are doing field work on a small, uninhabited island. You are supplementing your food supply with fish that live in some of the ponds on the island. You catch a brightly colored fish with red and black stripes, filet it, pan fry it, and spit out your
first bite because it tastes like it had been soaked in urine. Back at camp, your guide from a nearby island is pan frying fish with red and black stripes he caught in an adjacent pond. When you tell him not to eat those, he smiles and says these are the best-tasting fish in the whole island chain! You look closer and see the pattern of the red and black stripes is just a little different from the fish you caught.What principle of ecology have you just experienced firsthand? A) Batesian mimicry B) commensalism C) mutualism D) Müllerian mimicry
Connective tissue serves to support and bind other tissues. Which of the following is NOT an example of connective tissue?
A. bone B. cartilage C. neurons D. fat E. blood