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Lyme Disease: Relative To Biology 1113

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Lyme disease is indeed relative to Biology 1113. Lyme disease is a bacterial infection transmitted by ticks that evades the human host. Given that bacteria is a living system it can be classified as an organism, which is significant to most of the topics we reviewed in Biology 1113. Some of those topics incorporated are reproduction, mitochondria and its role in cellular metabolism, and adaptation. Lyme disease provides an example into the reproductive abilities of the bacteria. In ticks, the disease reproduces asexually via binary fission. In humans the disease reproduces asexually throughout the host’s body. Mitochondrion has a prominent role in the regulation of cellular metabolism. When the host is infected by the bacteria it can lead to

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