BIOLOGY:CONCEPTS+APPL.(LOOSELEAF)
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Chapter 19, Problem 14SA
Match each disease with the type of pathogen that causes it. Choices may be used more than once.
| ___tuberculosis | a. virus |
| ___
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b. bacteria |
| ___influenza (flu) | |
| ___Lyme disease | |
| ___cholera |
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BIOLOGY:CONCEPTS+APPL.(LOOSELEAF)
Ch. 19 - ________ can have a genome of either RNA or DNA....Ch. 19 - Peptidoglycan is seen only in cell walls of...Ch. 19 - In _______, viral DNA becomes integrated into a...Ch. 19 - Prob. 4SACh. 19 - Prob. 5SACh. 19 - Prob. 6SACh. 19 - Prob. 7SACh. 19 - _______ are oxygen-releasing photoautotrophs. a....Ch. 19 - Prob. 9SACh. 19 - Vitamin-producing E. coli cells in your gut are...
Ch. 19 - Prob. 11SACh. 19 - Prob. 12SACh. 19 - Eukaryotes are most closely related to _______. a....Ch. 19 - Match each disease with the type of pathogen that...Ch. 19 - Prob. 15SACh. 19 - Prob. 1CTCh. 19 - Methanogens have been found in the human gut and...Ch. 19 - Review the description of Fred Griffiths...Ch. 19 - The antibiotic penicillin interferes with...Ch. 19 - Many compounds secreted by soil bacteria have been...
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