BBH 311 Quiz 4 Test Questions and Complete Solutions
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BBH 311
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BBH 311
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BBH 311 (quiz 1) Practice Questions and
Correct Answers
What things are negotiable when receiving a job offer? ✅salary, start up, lab space,
teaching load
How do researchers pay for biobehaviorial research studies? ✅grant money
not start up funds because that is just money provided by the boss once, not every year
Why are priori hypotheses important when doing research? ✅help avoid Type 1 error
(do not test as many things)
True or False: Research with human participants has directly demonstrated the
imprtance of using microbiome to treat depression ✅False; most done with animals
and no clinical trials with humans
True or False: Research with human participants has directly demonstrated the
importance of cellular energetics ( such as mitochondrial dysfunction and glycolysis)
✅False; does not test directly but the biproducts of it
In BBH the term inflammation does NOT refer to what type of cytokine response?
✅Acute
What is the reason for choosing the inflammatory cytokines that BBH researchers most
often measure? ✅they are influenced by stress
they are not easy to identify (which is why they are so expensive) and they do not all
change rapidly
True or False: Cows emit more CO2 from digesting food than cars emit from burning
fuel ✅False; there was a quote that said it was true but it is not actually true
it takes more gas than 1 million to take cows to slaughter and to plow fields-- not cows
themselves but fuels that are burning to make stuff with cows that emits of the fuels
Vitamin D deficiency is associated with increased risk of... ✅Heart disease
What is the reason that could explain why vitamin d deficiency is associated with racial
health disparities? ✅ease of modern day migration
no genetic difference in vitamin d production with different people just comes down to
the letting in of sun
, - mismatch in skin color= people who have fair skin going to a place with too much sun
is why skin cancer is becoming more prevalent,, there skin was not made for that kind of
environment
True or False: Buying a vitamin d supplement from GNC without MD input is safe and
effective for reducing seasonal affective disorder symptoms ✅False; too much vitamin
d is toxic because of calcium build up
Inflammation ✅a localized physical condition in which part of the body becomes
reddened, swollen, hot, and often painful especially as a reaction to injury or infection
In BBH studies,, inflammation refers to ✅chronic systemic circulating pro-inflammatory
cytokines
Systemic/ Circulating
Pro-inflammatory
Chronic
In BBH we focus on cytokines that ✅- are known to impact health and are influenced
by stress
Climate change ✅a change in global or regional climate patterns due to humans
burning fossil fuel
Is climate change from the cows themselves? ✅NO
it is from the..
fuel to make fertilizer and transport it
fuel for tractors
fuel for transporting corn feed and cattle
fuel consumer uses to pick up the beef
fuel/electricity to refrigerate/cook the beef
How would the loss of land to higher water, as a result of climate change, impact human
health? ✅- increased bacterial infections
- algae bloom (toxic and affects seafood with ciguatera which is a disease that causes
gastric and neurological damage)
- increased stress bc relocation is stressful (jobs and living wise)
How do wildfires impact human health? ✅-respiratory problems (initiates airway
inflammation)
- cardiovascular problems
- long term exposure to pollution may be associated with cognitive problems
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