BIO 1409 Microbe Hunters Tracking Infectious Agents Biology Worksheet Please click on the Special Event: Microbe Hunters link above, then select the attach

BIO 1409 Microbe Hunters Tracking Infectious Agents Biology Worksheet Please click on the Special Event: Microbe Hunters link above, then select the attached file to watch a one hour video from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Holiday Lecture Series entitled Microbe Hunters. You may start and stop the video as you answer the questions found in the file. Please save the Word document once you have completed all questions, attach, and submit. There are 20 questions worth one point each, so the assignment is worth 20 points total.Immunity Crash Course Part 1Immunity Crash Course Part 2answer the attatched questions(in doc) Name_________________
Biology 1409 Special Event: Microbe Hunters
Directions:
1. You may want to print the following questions before you begin the video. You will
find that they are in sequence with the lecture.
2. Copy and paste the following into your address area of the internet:
http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/microbe-hunters-tracking-infectious-agents
3. There are a couple of display options, scroll down the page until you see:
Lecture One—Microbe Hunters: Tracking Infectious Agents
4. Select your computer connection speed. Either 56 K moden or Cable/DSL/ TI from
the Lecture One
5. The lecture should immediately load and begin.
Assignment:
1. Name the person giving the lecture.
2. What diseases has he investigated?
3. What causes the Bubonic Plague?
4. What did scientists believe about infectious diseases in the 1960’s?
5. Where did you see art incorporated into the idea of infectious diseases?
6. Do viruses fit our criteria for life? Explain.
7. How did the lecturer illustrate the relative sizes of viruses and other organisms?
8. Describe the mechanism by which viruses enter cells.
9. Describe the process that viruses use to make new viruses.
10. What is an epidemiologist?
11. How do epidemiologists decide if the illness is an epidemic?
12. What are some traditional methods of finding the pathogen that cause a disease?
13. Lab scientists take charge when it is determined there is an epidemic. What new ways
of searching for microorganisms are being used?
14. What is the #1 tumor of AIDS patients?
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15. Name and describe two life styles of the Herpes virus.
16. List Koch’s postulates.
17. Can Koch’s postulates be used for all pathogens?
18. What is the advantage of latency for a virus?
19. Explain why some patients are resistant to HIV.
20. What is the interaction between viral DNA and human DNA?

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