ANBI 139 Previous Midterm
Questions Exam Set
B. Diabetes - Answer Which disease is not infectious (non-communicable)?
A. Influenza A
B. Diabetes
C. HIV/AIDS
C. Virus - Answer Which class of pathogens can exist without a cell membrane?
A. Protozoa
B. Bacteria
C. Virus
D. Worms
False, many immunizations use live, attenuated pathogens. - Answer All immunizations
use killed (inactivated) pathogens or their subunits:
True or False?
False, unlike dog and Tasmanian Devil cancers - Answer Human cancers can be passed
from one individual to the next:
True of False?
C. Populations - Answer The most important changes in evolution take place in:
A. Cells
B. Individuals
C. Populations
B. 30% - Answer TB bacteria infect what fraction of people around the world:
A 10%
B. 30%
C. 60%
A. Lipids, glycans, nucleic acids, proteins - Answer Which are the four major classes:
A. Lipids, glycans, nucleic acids, proteins
, B. Nucleic acids, RNA, proteins, lipids
C. 3 billion - Answer The human genome contains approximately how many DNA base
pairs?
A. 1 billion
B. 2 billion
C. 3 billion
A. Parasitic worms - Answer The term "old friends" is used by some evolutionary
immunologists to denote:
A. Parasitic worms
B. Bacteria belonging to the microbiome
C. Endogenous retrovirus
C. B-cells - Answer Which immune cells can produce soluble probes (antibodies)?
A. T-cells
B. Dendritic cells
C. B-cells
B. Germline-encoded arm of the immune system - Answer Innate immunity refers to the:
A. Innate ability to produce antibodies
B. Germline-encoded arm of the immune system
B. DNA molecules wrapped around proteins - Answer Chromosomes are:
A. Pure DNA molecules inside a cell
B. DNA molecules wrapped around proteins
C. DNA and RNA molecules in the cell
A. Less susceptible to epidemics - Answer Populations with higher levels of variation
are:
A. Less susceptible to epidemics
B. More susceptible to epidemics
C. Immune to epidemics
B. Can be passed on from one bacterium to distantly related bacteria via plasmids. -
Answer Bacterial antibiotic resistance:
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