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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

#XL - T Zoology

  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: 5924

#General Aptitude

The calendar for the year 2008 will be the same for the year : 
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#Question id: 5925

#General Aptitude

On what dates of April, 2001 did Wednesday fall ? 
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#Question id: 6942

#XL - T Zoology

How long does embryonic development (before 1st instar larva hatches) take in this organism?
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#Question id: 6943

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The portion of the blastoderm-stage embryo which will give rise to most ectodermal, mesodermal, and endodermal tissues is called the:
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#Question id: 6944

#XL - T Zoology

Which would lead to a dorsalized embryo? (Recall that genes in Drosophila are named for their mutant phenotype.
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#Question id: 6945

#XL - T Zoology

The portion of the Drosophila body plan which will produce the wing is called