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Live attenuated and inactivated vaccines contain whole pathogens that are weak, killed, or inactivated, while subunit vaccines, toxoid vaccines, and conjugate vaccines contain acellular components with antigens

There are pros, cons, and tradeoffs for different physical and chemical methods of microbial control. As such, a combination of methods is often required to achieve a desired microbial state on and in the body and on surfaces

The minimum, maximum, and optimum concentrations or measures of an environmental factor refers to the range within which a microorganism best tolerates that condition. An optimum value is the one that promotes the fastest and largest population growth

Physical or chemical methods to control microbial growth that result in death of the microbe are indicated by the suffixes -stat or -static, whereas those that simply inhibit microbial growth are indicated by the suffixes -cide or –cidal

Disinfection inactivates most, but not all, microbes on fomites using various physical and chemical antimicrobial treatments. While microbial load is significantly reduced, these surfaces are not considered sterile but are considered relatively clean

Most microbes do not require moist environments to survive and reproduce

Parasitism is a type of symbiotic relationship between species where one organism – the host – lives on or in another organism – the parasite – and causes it harm

1. What context does each of the regular allomorphs of the English plural morpheme occur in? 2. Please first identify if the following words is an example of structural ambiguity, and explain why.  toy car shop can refer to either a store that only sells toy cars, or to a toy representation of a store that sells cars.  candy apple can refer to either a candy that is shaped like an apple, or to an apple that has been covered in a candy coating. The word biweekly can mean either “twice a week” or “every two weeks”. Is this an example of structural ambiguity?  3. Please identify all morphemes of the following words, and speficty the types of each morphomes: unlockable reset Internationalization 4.  Consider the example of singular, dual, and plural nouns in Inuktut: (1) gloss singular dual (2) plural (3+) “door” matu matuuk matuit “cloud” nuvuja nuvujaak nuvujait How can we find the plural morpheme in these examples? Please explain. 

Archaea are found in nearly every habitat on earth, even extreme environments. Some live in the human body and are extremely virulent

Gram-negative bacteria are broadly classified as either proteobacteria or non-proteobacteria