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Which of the following form part of the innate immune system? (Mark all that apply.)

An organism with a temperature growth range of 45 degrees Celsius to 60 degrees Celsius would be called a(n):

____ is part of the glycocalyx that increases the bacterial resistance to phagocytosis, as well as protects the bacterium from nutrient and water loss.

A person inhales a potentially pathogenic bacterium. What defenses will the bacterium encounter as it travels through the human body? (Mark all that apply.)

You are a doctor, and a patient suffering from severe diarrhea and dehydration comes to see you. Which of the following diseases would this patient most likely have?

When microbes in close nutritional relationship and one benefits but the other is harmed, it is called:

The actively metabolic, free living life-form of protozoa is the ______________.

A person carrying one gene for sickle-cell hemoglobin will be resistant to Malaria. Why?

All of the following structures contribute to the ability of pathogenic bacteria to cause disease, except: Hint- remember that if it cannot attach, it cannot infect 🙂

All of the following are correct about biofilms, except: