BIOLOGY:CONCEPTS+APPL.(LOOSELEAF)
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ISBN: 9781305967359
Author: STARR
Publisher: CENGAGE L
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Chapter 19, Problem 14SA
Match each disease with the type of pathogen that causes it. Choices may be used more than once.
| ___tuberculosis | a. virus |
| ___
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b. bacteria |
| ___influenza (flu) | |
| ___Lyme disease | |
| ___cholera |
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Chapter 19 Solutions
BIOLOGY:CONCEPTS+APPL.(LOOSELEAF)
Ch. 19 - ________ can have a genome of either RNA or DNA....Ch. 19 - Peptidoglycan is seen only in cell walls of...Ch. 19 - In _______, viral DNA becomes integrated into a...Ch. 19 - Prob. 4SACh. 19 - Prob. 5SACh. 19 - Prob. 6SACh. 19 - Prob. 7SACh. 19 - _______ are oxygen-releasing photoautotrophs. a....Ch. 19 - Prob. 9SACh. 19 - Vitamin-producing E. coli cells in your gut are...
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