Goal 7: Microbiology

All statements are true of bacteria, however the fact that they are responsible for causing dieseases does not help humans.

B is how anti-virals work. Antibiotics could not kill vectors and D has nothing to do with how antibiotics work.

Since the 80 year old is considered old that will increase her chances of becoming ill, plus since she is a nurse she is going to be exposed to others who are sick, also increasing her chances of becoming ill.

Your shirt color has nothing to do wtih whether or not you will get a disease.

Since it has more vitamin A it will be more nutrious.

Healthy lifestyle choices help to protect you from diseases.

Vaccines work to eliminate disease not increase them.

Communicable means that it can be spread. Non-communicable means that it can not be spread.

Answer choice A is the only answer that deals with the agricultural field (farming).

Symptomatic means showing signs of the disease. Symptoms include: coughing, sneezing, headaches and fever

Antibiotics kill bacteria; anti-fungals kill fungal infections; anti-virals eliminate viruses reproduction.

Vectors are small organisms that carry diseases without getting sick from the disease themselves. Examples: ticks and mosquitoes.

All of the other fields are science-related. Social studies is not.

while all choices are true of viruses, the fact that they need cells for reproduction is the only answer that has to do with the virus not being alive.

Heart disease is controlled by diet and healthy lifestyle choices. Malaria is controlled by eliminating mosquito populations. There is a vaccine for polio that you take when you are a baby.

Geography has nothing to do with biotechnology.

Golf ball is comparable to viruses (because it is the smallest type of ball) and soccer ball is comparable to bacteria because it is small but larger than golf ball.

Crop yield is how much product the farmer can get out of his farmland. Since decreasing the number of crop plants is going to decrease the crop yield, this would not be a strategy for increasing crop yield.

Antimicrobials should not be used for every day situations. Over-use of them will cause microbes to become resistant to the material and then we will have to create new antimicrobial solutions.

Bacterial strains, the build up of wastes, and not having enough environmental space will hinder bacterial growth. But having plenty of nutrients will increase bacterial growth.

Answer choice D is the only answer that does not deal with medicines.

Since bacteria help us digest our food, if we were to remove them we would lose some of our ability to digest our food.

Symptoms include: severe headache, neck stiffness, high fever, swelling of the tissues surrounding the brain and spinal cord

Transgenic crops are plants that have the DNA from a different type of plant added to them so that they will produce more crops, will resist disease, will grow faster or bloom at a different time of the year.

Everyone wants to see healthier foods made, but the other concerns have raised some questions in the scientific community.