Imagine you’re on a camping trip with a group of friends. One friend (played by your partner) pulls a bottle of liquor out of a backpack and starts to pass it. Your entire group of friends drinks from the bottle before passing it to you. Begin your dialogue with your friend by assertively refusing the drink. You may explain your refusal in any way that makes the most sense to you. Your friend should then respond by trying to persuade you. Continue this role-playing until each of you has had a few opportunities to speak. Describe the conversation you had with your friend. In what ways were you assertive in your refusal? Describe your body language. What methods of persuasion did your friend use? Were they difficult to resist? Why or why not? If you found yourself in a similar situation, would you be able to practice assertive refusal? Explain.

The herpes viruses are important enveloped dna viruses that cause disease in vertebrates and in some invertebrates such as oysters. some of the human forms are herpes simplex virus (hsv) types i and ii, causing facial and genital lesions, and the varicella zoster virus (vsv), causing chicken pox and shingles. each of these three actively infects nervous tissue. primary infections are fairly mild, but the virus is not then cleared from the host; rather, viral genomes are maintained in cells in a latent phase. the virus can later reactivate, replicate again, and infect others. in electron micrographs of hsv infection, it can be seen that the intact virus initially reacts with cell surface proteoglycans, then with specific receptors. this is later followed by viral capsids docking with nuclear pores. afterward, the capsids go from being full to being "empty." which of the following best fits these observations? a) viral capsids are needed for the cell to become infected; only the capsids enter the nucleus. b) the viral envelope is not required for infectivity, since the envelope does not enter the nucleus. c) only the genetic material of the virus is involved in the cell's infectivity, and is injected like the genome of a phage. d) the viral envelope mediates entry into the cell, the capsid mediates entry into the nuclear membrane, and the genome is all that enters the nucleus.