You take an environmental sample from the surface of your ce…

You take an environmental sample from the surface of your cell phone and plate it on an agar plate. You then decide to wipe of the surface of your cell phone with a wet wipe and take another environmental sample from the surface of your cell phone and plate it on an agar plate. The plate containing the pre-wet wipe sample grew 100+ colonies, while the other plate only grew 5. What did you do to your cell phone?

A 7-year-old Domestic Shorthaired cat is brought for evaluat…

A 7-year-old Domestic Shorthaired cat is brought for evaluation of a wound on the left flank after the animal got into a fight with a stray cat in the neighborhood. Palpation of the wound elicits pain, as indicated by loud vocalization and withdrawal from the technician. Which part(s) of the nociceptive pathway has/have been activated in this cat?