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Recall lecture or your textbook reading: which wavelength range of UV light is “germicidal”, causing pyrimidine dimers to form (T-T or C-C) in DNA, so potentially damaging the DNA of bacteria and killing them?

Your patient has been on antibiotics for 6 weeks after a case of streptococcal endocarditis, an infection of the inner heart wall.  The infection clears up.  However, the patient just visited you again. this time about a urinary tract infection, and the lab reports that the culprit this time was E. coli, a different bacterial species from the original infection. What do you hypothesize happened in this situation?  

Any heightened immune response resulting in tissue damage is called a/an 

Recall lecture or your textbook reading: which wavelength range of UV light is “germicidal”, causing pyrimidine dimers to form (T-T or C-C) in DNA, so potentially damaging the DNA of bacteria and killing them?

How can our normal microbiota help minimize infections by pathogens?

What specifically would happen to an individual human who lost their helper T cells?  Provide a real-world example of this.

Sulfonamides are analogs of PABA and, as a result, they inhibit _____ synthesis. 


Deficiency of hormone testosterone can result in ________

 Epilepsy is the result of ________.

Metabolism of the body is controlled by ______ hormone