Pathogens are those that do not cause disease in their normal habitat but may do so in a different environment.

What do you do if you fall over and bend your big toe all the way forwards?

You isolate an infectious substance capable of causing disease in plants, but you do not know whether the infectious agent is a bacterium, virus, viroid, or prion. you have four methods at your disposal to analyze the substance and determine the nature of the infectious agent. i. treat the substance with enzymes that destroy all nucleic acids and then determine whether the substance is still infectious. ii. microscope. iii. culture the substance on nutritive medium, away from any plant cells. iv. treat the sample with proteases that digest all proteins and then determining whether the substance is still infectious. if you already know that the infectious agent was either bacterial or viral, which method(s) listed above would allow you to distinguish between these two possibilities? a) ib) iic) ii or iiid) iv

What is difference between an epidemic and a pandemic? a) an epidemic is a disease; a pandemic is a treatment. b) an epidemic is restricted to a local region; a pandemic is global. c) an epidemic has low mortality; a pandemic has higher mortality. d) an epidemic is caused by a bacterial infection; a pandemic is caused by a viral infection.