Option 1: Describe what it means to say that someone is mentally ill? What criteria are usually considered to determine whether someone is mentally ill? List and describe the differences between the three major theories of the causes of mental illness, according to your textbook.   Option 2: In the History of Mental Disorders chapter, the History of Mental Illness chapter, and the Personality Disorders chapter, the book repeatedly uses a term to describe behaviors that are negatively affecting a person’s life. In this answer and in your own words, explain that term’s meaning. Is the term a general term, or is it a specific term that only refers to one specific disorder? Then, explain how that term would specifically apply to Psychopathy versus how the term would apply to Severe ADHD. That is to ask, how are Psychopathy and Severe ADHD different with respect to the term?

You have the option of selecting either option A or B for each question. If you respond to both options, only the first response will be graded. Please indicate which question you intend to respond to.  2A. Explain how beta lactam antibiotics work, identify the type of bacteria that they work best against and discuss at least two ways that bacteria can become resistant.  2B. List and describe four criteria designed by Koch to establish a causative relationship between a microbe and a disease.

The antibiotic typically used to treat MRSA is:

You have the option of selecting either option A or B for each question. If you respond to both options, only the first response will be graded. Please indicate which question you intend to respond to.  1A. Explain how Fredrick Griffith proved that genetic material can be directly transferred between bacterial cells.  1B. Describe the steps of the gram staining procedure. Make sure to discuss how the reagents affect gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria differently.

A 62-year-old patient presented to his primary care doctor complaining of a bloody cough. The organism was purple-pink when an acid-fast stain was performed and the colony morphology is pictured. Select the biochemical test results that should be expected for the organism. (Select all that apply).  

Which organism commonly causes food poisoning by consumption of food containing preformed, heat-stable enterotoxin?

Which of the following classes of antibiotics interferes with ribosomes?

Based on colony morphology, antibiotic resistance and hemolytic pattern, the circled organism pictured is likely:  

A 27-year-old woman in her 30th week of pregnancy presented to the ER because of premature labor. She reported that she hadn’t felt well over the past few days and that it started a couple days after eating a salad with raspberries, walnuts, cranberries and goat cheese.   Cultures from the amniotic fluid and placenta revealed smooth round colonies with a narrow zone of beta-hemolysis on the BAP. Which test should be performed to identify the organism based on the patient presentation and morphology? 

1. An important cause of acute exudative pharyngitis is: