What is the Zika virus?answera virus that if women get while pregnant can cause the child to be born with microcephaly which entails a small head and
... [Show More] severe brain damage, however if not pregnant you will just experience mild flu symptoms
How is the Zika virus spread?answerby mosquitoes in Brazil
The CDC has declared 3 antibiotic resistant bacteria serious threats, are they currently widespread right now?answerThey are not currently widespread yet but they have the potential to become so and require urgent public health attention
What is CDIFF?answera bacteria that spreads very easily, located mainly in hospitals, that causes severe diarrhea and can be deadly
What is CRE?answera bacteria that can be deadly and infects the gut
What is Neisseria Gonorrhoeae?answeran STD that is becoming resistant to antibiotics
What is required by viruses?answerthey must be inside a cell to replicate and are called obligate intracellular parasites
Are viruses alive?answerIt is a huge debate
What are 75% of the 80 new diseases discovered between 1980 and 2007?answerRNA viruses
What does it mean to be alive?answerIt means to have a metabolism, to use or produce energy, and to replicate
From the meaning behind "being alive", what all do viruses do?answerthey replicate, however they do not have a metabolism and they do not use or produce energy
What are the 3 domains used to classify microbes?answer1. Bacteria
2. Archaea
3. Eukarya
Are there more humans or microbes on Earth?answermicrobes
In the 3 domains used to classify microbes, how do the domains differ?answerthey differ by having different ribosomal RNA sequences
What microbes do not fall in the 3 domains of classifying microbes?answerViruses and Prions
Which of the following are eukaryotic microbes?
A. Viruses
B. Bacteria
C. Animals
D. Yeast
E. C and DanswerD, not A or B because they are not eukaryotic, and not C because animals are not microbes
Viruses are classified in which domain?
A. Bacteria
B. Archaea
C. Eukarya
D. Viralae
E. None of the aboveanswerE, because D does not exist as a domain and viruses do not fall in A, B, or C
What is the magnification on a microscope?answerthe objective lens x the eyepiece [Show Less]