CASE 3:  A missionary couple living in West Africa bring their 4-year old son to the nearest medical clinic. The child has bloody diarrhea, fever, and vomiting. The child’s mother reports that he has had these symptoms for the past 24 hours. A fecal specimen is taken and examined under the microscope. This particular organism can be identified in its trophozoite form due to the observed _____.

CASE 3:  A missionary couple living in West Africa bring their 4-year old son to the nearest medical clinic. The child has bloody diarrhea, fever, and vomiting. The child’s mother reports that he has had these symptoms for the past 24 hours. A fecal specimen is taken and examined under the microscope. The signs and symptoms exhibited by this patient are consistent with bloody dysentery. Which of the following pathogens is the most likely cause of this illness?

How does a mild fever provide defense against disease?

Laquisha has a bacterial infection that is resistant to many antibiotics. Her physician is tempted to offer an injection of a newly-developed lytic bacteriophage engineered to infect this highly-pathogenic strain of bacteria. Place the following steps of the bacteriophage lytic cycle in their correct chronological order: 1) Biosynthesis 2) Maturation 3) Attachment 4) Release 5) Penetration

CASE 1:  A 40-year-old hospital patient begins complaining of painful urination. She had been admitted to the hospital three days prior for a surgical procedure that required the use of a catheter. A urine specimen is collected and analyzed. Pink cells in the Gram stain suggest that the pathogen is E. coli. Escherichia coli is a mutualistic member of the large intestine’s normal flora. The fact that it is causing a UTI in this particular case accounts for why E. coli is also considered _____.

There is evidence that gender differences are caused by genetic and environmental factors.  Provide evidence for both and then give your opinion on which is more influential in creating gender differences. 

Psychologists commonly distinguish between unpopular children who are

The one general factor central to most friendship choices is

Noam Chomsky thought humans have a unique, inborn ability to understand language.  Chomsky called this the

According to Deborah Tannen, men and women use language differently.  Which of these is NOT true?