Is there a certain type of virus morphology that is especially known to cause disease in humans? Explain your reasoning
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: No, there is not a particular morphology of viruses that is known to cause diseases in humans. Viral proteins often cause sicknesses, and certain viral morphologies are not strongly correlated with particular proteins. Only one viral morphology has not been described in animal (human) viruses, which is the head and tail morphology typical of bacteriophages.
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The following paragraph describes the activities of hypothetical scientists. After reading this paragraph, list the steps of the scientific method, and list the activities that correspond to the steps of the scientific method.
A rancher noticed that several grazing animals had become sick after grazing in a new area. The rancher asked a team of scientists to analyze this problem. They visited the area and found that the food available to the animals was similar to the food they had been eating. The water supply in the area was adequate but limited to a single spring. Some of the scientists felt that the water might be contaminated with a pathogen. Therefore, they collected water samples from the spring in the new area and compared them with water samples taken from previous grazing sites. The scientists noticed that water from the new area was cloudier than water obtained from other areas. Culturing this water revealed that a pathogenic strain of bacteria was present. This bacterial strain was found to be identical to a strain obtained from sick animals. This strain was not present in healthy animals. They concluded that a contaminated water supply in the new area was responsible for the problem and instructed the rancher to avoid the water supply. The disease was not found in the rancher's livestock again.
Ingesting the Psilocybe mushroom usually causes
a. a burning sensation. b. death. c. hallucinations. d. liver and kidney shutdown.
What technique detects brain voltage (electrical activity) fluctuations?
a. molecular biology techniques using brain tissue b. x-rays c. positron emission tomography (PET) d. electroencephalograph (EEG) e. functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
The idea that evolution proceeds in small, incremental changes over many generations is
A. temporal isolation. B. gradualism. C. punctuated equilibrium. D. hybrid breakdown. E. mechanical isolation.