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#Question id: 1021

Disease Control (CDC) determine that the agent causing the birds to die is the West Nile virus. Outbreaks of this illness have been observed in several other countries in Asia and the Middle East across the last 50 years, but not in the United States. With this information, what would be the best categorization of this infectious agent/disease

#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

  1. This is clearly a reemerging infection. It's been around for a long time, and it is reappearing in a susceptible population again.

  2. This is clearly a nosocomial infection. It's transmitted from animals to human beings in urban environments.

  3. This is clearly an emerging infection. It hasn't been around that long, and it has made a jump across continents into a new susceptible population.

  4. This is clearly not a concern to human beings--maybe it's emerging in animals, maybe it's reemerging, maybe it's nosomial. But who cares? It's only in birds.

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#Question id: 10971

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

A pregnant woman comes in for a visit. She is AB Rh− and her husband is A Rh+. This is her first child. What should be done at this time?
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#Question id: 14733

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Staphylococci are coccus bacteria which usually occur in clusters. What is the benefit of being in cluster
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#Question id: 28763

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Lysosome an interior pH of about_____
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#Question id: 142

#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

Histidine has pKa values of 1.8, 6.0 (R-group) and 9.3 . At pH 8.0, the net charge on histidine is
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#Question id: 29583

#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

The specialized bacteria that are obligate parasites of the phloem tissue known as