What is the relationship between the sickle cell mutation and the Plasmodium parasite? Would having the HbSA genotype still be advantageous in a region where such parasites are not common? Why or why not?

Q: responsible for transmitting a large fraction of vector-borne diseases.

A: INTRODUCTION Dipterans, also known as flies, are a diverse group of insects belonging to the order…

Q: What do the terms host cell and host range mean?

A: Parasitism is a symbiotic relationship, in which one species benefits at the expense of the…

Q: In 1988 Harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) in the Baltic Sea contracted phocine distemper virus.…

A: R0 is called as the basic reproductive rate or reproductive ratio in epidemiology which defines in…

Q: Groups 9, 10, and 11 all had H1N1 variants that caused a largenumber of infections at the same time…

A: The scientists hypothesized that newly evolved variant of strains could evade the human defense…

Q: Which of the following is most likely to favor the evolution of highly virulent parasites? A.…

A: Evolution of highly virulent parasites.

Q: Which of these statements about the virulence of rabbit myxoma virus is TRUE? A. Rabbit myxoma virus…

A: Myxoma virus It is a DNA pox virus.  It is a member of the lepropoxvirus group. It spreads through…

Q: How does host genotype influence co-evolutionary patterns in host-parasite interactions? Provide an…

A: Evolution is a naturally occurring process in nature by which biological organisms change themselves…

Q: Volvox carteri, an volvocine alga, has approximately 2000 somatic cells and only 16 reproductive or…

A: Multicellular individuals with a germ line vs. somatic cell line differentiation only evolved a…

Q: What are some of the approaches biologists have been trying to reduce transmission of the parasites…

A: Malaria is a disease that spreads incredibly efficiently. The antimalarial medicines that are…

Q: What is resident flora? Transient flora that moves to a different location on the human host. o…

A: Answer:- Option C - Normal flora, consisting of bacterial and fungal species, that have been part of…

Q: What was the word "symbiosis" was originally invented to describe? a.) Species benefitting each…

A: Introduction  Ecology is the study of interactions between living things, such as humans, and their…

Q: It is not always easy to categorize a particular case of symbiosis. Suppose a certain species of…

A: The species in the ecosystem interact among themselves. These interactions might bring out a…

Q: Which of the following is a way in which plasmids may be introduced into host organisms?

A: Plasmids or transposons are considered replicons, units of DNA capable of replicating autonomously…

Q: Name a thing which is not a parasitic adaptation.

A: Parasites are the organisms that establish a biological interaction with the other organism(host).…

Q: osaic disease was NOT caused by a bacteria?

A: The virus can be defined as the submicroscopic infectious agent that can replicate inside the living…

Q: What does the term “dimorphic” refer to? Give an example of an organism that is dimorphic and what…

A: In biology, the term 'dimorphic' refers to the 'di' means 'two' and 'morphic' means 'structure or…

Q: 4) Many of the Platyhelminthes parasites we have investigated are advanced heteroxenous parasites…

A: Parasitic infection is an infection generated or spread by parasites. Some parasites do not cause…

Q: What is the major premise of the endosymbiosis theory and what evidence supports the theory?

A: The endosymbiotic theory was proposed by evolutionist Lynn Margulis. It showed that a major…

Q: ct one: 1A. Every other generation is in the medusa form . B. Only even generations receive…

A: Alternation of generations is a type of life cycle that switches between two forms, the Asexual and…

Q: Even though genetically engineered mosquitoes might be developed that do not allow the reproduction…

A: Genetic engineering' is based on the recombinant DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) technology, the…

Q: How has past attempts and could future attempts to make a more pleasant and "sterile" world for…

A: *Genetic modification takes place at therapeutic where the illness or deficiency in a person is…

Q: Sub-Saharan Africa is epicenter of two major pandemics: HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis (TB). Although…

A: HIV is a virus.“HIV” stands for human immunodeficiency virus. This virus leads to the deterioration…

Q: Which of the following conclusions could be drawn from the similarities and relatedness that exist…

A: Introduction:  Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) is a lentivirus that affects a number of nonhuman…

Q: Phylogenetic with branch lengths scaled in genetic distance 0.88 0.88 0.93 0.78 2388-3883 232 2002…

A: Answer.) :-The phylogenetic tree shows the relationship between different samples of Mycobacterium…

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A: A species are organisms that are capable of reproducing within the their own memebers. However ,…

Q: Given that only about 1 in 10 cells lodges in thespleen, do these results support the idea that the…

A: Introduction  Human body is consisting of around 37 trillion cells in total however the large number…

Q: What is symbiosis? Give examples other than those mentioned in the text.

A: Organisms living in an ecosystem influence one another either indirectly or directly. They are…

Q: lthough Lilly’'s project was focused on understanding the prevalence of resistance strains of M.…

A: Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a bacteria which is responsible for causing respiratory disease in the…

Q: a. Why is it necessary for most parasites to leave their host to complete the life cycle? b. What…

A: Most of the parasites usually have more than one hosts for completing their life cycle. This gives…

Q: Why was the demonstration of human resistance to malaria important to evolutionary biology?

A: Malaria is a disease that is transmitted by a bite from a infected mosquito.

Q: Choose an example of a host adaptation that may not look advantageous at first, but was determined…

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Q: Horizontal gene transfer between insects and their symbionts causes genome reduction in both the…

A: Choice A (causes genome reduction in both the host and the symbiont) is wrong because while it is…

Q: Notice that between July-12 and January-13 something happened (the blank box with the green arrow).…

A: The viruses are responsible for infecting a particular type of host cells and use the host's cell…

Q: What are the consequences of symbiont genome reduction?

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Q: In patients with nonresistant strains of the tuberculosis bacterium, antibiotics can relieve…

A: Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease that mainly affects the lungs but can also invade other organ systems…

Q: What do you think happened to the mutations that decreased survival orreproduction of the parasites?

A: Population genetics is a branch of evolutionary biology, a subcategory under genetics that helps in…

Q: Giardia is a protozoan parasite that lacks mitochondria. Based on the figure below, what could be…

A: Giardia is a protozoan parasite that lacks mitochondria. Based on the figure below, what could be…

Hematology

Hematology is the branch of biology. Hematology is the medical field that deals with the treatment of blood disorders and cancers, such as hemophilia, leukemia, lymphoma, and sickle-cell anemia. Hematologists and hematopathologists are medical professionals who specialize in illnesses of the blood and its components.