To be considered biotic, an organism must meet several conditions for life Viruses cannot be considered to be biotic because they do NOT: 1. Show a regulation of the internal environment (homeostasis) 2. Use/ process energy 3. Show adaptations to their environment or a response to their environment 4. Possess organization/order

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A: Viruses must bind to specific cell surface receptors to invade a cell. The presence of cellular…

Q: Billions of dollars are invested in strategies to reduce the spread of infectious diseases within…

A: Animal and plant diseases represent a serious danger to food security, sanitation, public economies,…

Q: Which of the following are associated with the origin and spread of antibiotic resistance?

A: Explanation are given below

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A: Symbiosis is a type of close relationship between two organisms. There are different types of…

Q: What is the difference between bacteria and viruses? Bacteria are non-living pieces of DNA or RNA;…

A: Introduction Microorganisms are tiny living organisms that are too small to be seen with the naked…

Q: Which of these definitions of symbiotic interactions most accurately describes the relationship…

A: Both partners benefit rom the relationship

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A: Virulence is the factor which influences the infection rate of the microorganism higher the…

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A: If certain bacteria provide benefits to our bodies, such as aiding in digestion and the release of…

Q: A roach crawls across a dirty floor and onto uncovered food.  An unsuspecting person eats the food…

A: Transmission of various microorganism by vectors is very common as vectors act as a vehicle for the…

Q: Microbial ecosystems (as well as all ecosystems) are often thought about in a hierarchical fashion.…

A: Ecology is the study is generally defined that they are supposed to refer the interactions between…

Q: Some living things depend on each other in a very close relationship which last overtime the general…

A: Answer: When there is a dependence of living organisms with the association of other organism,…

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A: Coley`s toxins is a mixture consisting of killed bacteria of species Sterptococcus pyogens   ,…

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A: In ecology, mutualism can be described as a positive interaction between two organisms that provide…

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A: Prokaryotes are not always harmful. There are variety of prokaryotes that are beneficial and…

Q: Choose all of the factors that contribute to how much a disease might spread in a population:

A: The disease in a population is spread by a pathogen in various modes of transmission. It can be…

Q: Pick all that are true and none that are false. What are some changes in human-associated microbial…

A: Given the changes in human-associated microbial communities due to industrialization, the true…

Q: Bioremediation is the study of how diseases emerge and how to prevent them.   True False

A: Bioremediation is the use of microbes to clean up contaminated soil and groundwater. Bioremediation…

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A: The interaction affects the pair of organisms living together in the community have on each other.…

Q: How have biologists made progress in understanding the mechanisms by which human cells function, and…

A: Clinical treatments that employ various animal models even though show promising results, but these…

Q: Which one of the following terms is NOT directly relevant to the ecology of infectious disease?…

A: Various diseases are caused by different organisms in the body. The entry of different pathogens…

Q: What IS NOT a reason why are prokaryotes so highly adaptable? A. They can grow very fast B. They…

A: Carolus Linnaeus is known as father of taxonomy who proposed two kingdom classification. The two…

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A: It was evident from the text that the population of Europe practices the feudal system and only the…

Q: Parasitism is one of the most widespread life strategies to evolve. Which of the following supports…

A: A parasite is an organism that lives on or in a host organism and gets its food from or at the…

Q: Probiotic bacteria in the human large intestine (also known as “the colon”):  a. have an optimal…

A: Probiotics are made up of good bacteria that helps keep our body healthy and working well.…

Q: The following graph shows the trends in bacteria and viruses after they infect an organism. A B Time…

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A: *Genetic modification takes place at therapeutic where the illness or deficiency in a person is…

Q: Define and give one example for each term commensalism mutualism parasitism

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A: Introduction: A muscle is made up of a group of muscular tissues which contract together to produce…

Q: Which of the following is mismatched?   Viremia – presence of virus in the blood Systemic…

A: Introduction: Epidemiology is the study and analysis of health and illness distribution patterns and…

Q: You are a researcher researching Zika virus, a mosquito-borne pathogen. The number of cases of Zika…

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Q: Explain how human encroachment contributes to the emergence of novel infectious diseases.  What…

A: In the past and present, human encroachment had been the major cause of novel infectious diseases.…

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A: Penicillin inhibits the cell wall of bacteria by blocking transpeptidase after binding to…

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A: Epidemiology deals with the occurrence, prevalence, and possible control of the diseases. A…

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A: In ecosystem there are various cycle which are operating such as carbon,nitrogen,phosphorous…

Q: Viruses contain cell membranes. True False Heterotrophs are organisms that cannot make their own…

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Q: Identify the organism that is not an autotroph.         photosynthetic bacteria…

A: The objective of the question is to identify the organism that is not an autotroph from the given…

Q: List two symbiotic associations and explain them

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Q: A hypothetical protist, Protista biologica, can become inhabited by a bacterium. This bacterium…

A: The objective of the question is to identify the type of relationship between the hypothetical…

Q: Normal microbiota:  A. are only found in the digestive tract. B. protect us from disease by…

A: Normal microbiota are the micro-organisms that cover the epidermal region of the body covering every…

Q: A disease can spread by sneezing or via diarrhea that contaminates drinking water. Before widespread…

A: We are surrounded by various pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, fungus etc. Every day we get…

Q: Which statement is TRUE?

A: Viruses are nonliving cells that complete their life cycle by infecting host cells. They have sizes…

Terrestrial Ecosystem

An ecosystem is a collection of interconnected communities. It includes both living and non-living elements of specific strata. The terrestrial ecosystem is solely related to the ecosystem present on the land and covers 25 to 30% of the total earth’s surface area.