A new disease has recently been discovered in a community, and you have been brought in to investigate. The disease appears to pass from one person to another when they shake hands, and it can be cured with antibiotics. What can you say about this disease? A. It is a fungal disease that is indirectly transmitted.
B. The pathogen replicates without using host cells' replication machinery, and it is directly transmitted.
C. It is a viral disease that is directly transmitted.
D. The pathogen replicates without using host cells' replication machinery, and it is indirectly transmitted.

Why would a drug that damages capsids treat a viral infection? a. capsids prevent the lytic cycle from beginning. b. transduction requires a capsid. c. viruses use capsids to increase genetic variation. d. capsids provide protection for viruses.

Determine if the following statement is true or false. if true, choose true. if false, choose the rewording that is true. according to the law of independent assortment, alleles for each gene are inherited together so that they always stay together. according to the law of independent assortment, offspring express a combination of their parents' traits. according to the law of independent assortment, alleles for a characteristic split during meiosis and combine during fertilization. true according to the law of independent assortment, alleles for each gene are inherited independently so that no two alleles stay together.

Agene pool: a) is the collection of all the alleles found in a single species b) is the collection of all the alleles found in a single population c) is the collection of all the chromosomes found in a single population d) is the collection of genes in a species that allow the individuals to swim