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Use the S-curve where the solid line is actual cost and the dashed line is budgeted cost to choose the BEST statement.

What’s your next steps? Culture: CCMS urine Media: BAP – 20,000 CFU/mL of small white beta hemolytic colonies             CNA/MAC  biplate – growth on CNA ,but no growth on MAC a. What is the first test you perform? b. If the first test is positive, what is the second test you perform? c. If the first test is negative, what is the second test you perform?

When drawing blood cultures, the correct ratio of blood to broth is

Gram Stain: GPC in clusters & tetrads BAP Morphology: lemon yellow colonies; no hemolysis Tests: Catalase positive; Coagulase negative; Bacitracin positive Diseases: considered a contaminate in cultures; normal buccal flora What is your Presumptive ID?

Strep agalactiae gives this reaction to Bacitracin disc

Gram Stain: GPC in chains BAP Morphology: Alpha hemolytic colonies Tests: Catalase negative; ‘P’ disc resistant; BE negative.  Diseases: Endocarditis What is your Presumptive ID?

Gram Stain: GPC in clusters BAP Morphology: Beta hemolytic, golden colonies Tests: Catalase positive; Coagulase positive Diseases: TSS What is your Presumptive ID?

Pick 2 reasons for specimen rejection:

Which type of disturbance is most likely to promote species richness in a forest?

For this feedback loop scenario, fill in the completion of the loop and the type of feedback loop as you did in class examples. Background: Land desertification is a process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically because of hotter and drier conditions. This results in greater amounts of windblown dust entering the atmosphere, which reflects sunlight back into space rather than it reaching the Earth’s surface. Beginning of Loop: Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations results in longer periods of drought and extreme heat. Completion of loop: Type of feedback loop: