Describe one of the ways antibodies are used for diagnosis. (D18)
Which type of vaccination causes the person vaccinated to pr…
Which type of vaccination causes the person vaccinated to produce the antigenic agent (vaccine) with their own cells? (D17)
Give an example of a disease where the source and reservoir…
Give an example of a disease where the source and reservoir are different. (I12)
You and your friends are discussing how to get to your next…
You and your friends are discussing how to get to your next classes. You all imagine a map of your college campus. Then you each mentally travel across the map from where you all are to where your next classes are. You would expect that ______, which is consistent with ______.
List or describe the five steps/stages of infection (what th…
List or describe the five steps/stages of infection (what the microbes do, not the signs and symptoms one experiences). (I1)
Define epidemiology: (I11)
Define epidemiology: (I11)
Suppose that a doctor decides that a patient has a cold, rat…
Suppose that a doctor decides that a patient has a cold, rather than a much rarer disease, Disease X. She decides the disease is a cold, even though one symptom is fairly typical of Disease X and fairly atypical of a cold. This doctor is
Suppose that a study examines whether people have trouble cr…
Suppose that a study examines whether people have trouble creating a mental image of a famous painting while they are watching a cartoon on television. You would expect to find that
In testing for fecal contamination, what organism are we tes…
In testing for fecal contamination, what organism are we testing for? (I16)
Suppose that you are trying to recall a student’s last name,…
Suppose that you are trying to recall a student’s last name, so you repeat it over and over to yourself without analyzing it or giving it a meaning. According to the depth of processing, this activity would be categorized as