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Answer each question below. To properly answer the questions you will need your textbook, the recommended article and videos in this module, and you will need to perform independent research online. Each answer must have an appropriate reference when requested. As a standard rule, if you have to look up the answer you must reference your source. It is recommended that you selected websites ending in (.edu, .gov or .org.) for your research. Do not directly cite Wikipedia. See the Online Research section of Human-Microbe Interactions for suggested reputable websites for obtaining primary medical and microbiology literature.
USE THESE TO REFERENCE (and add your own references)
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/7/2/70-0234_article
https://www.ted.com/talks/bonnie_bassler_on_how_bacteria_communicate?language=enLinks to an external site.
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2012/08/18/me-myself-us
1) Explain how the human body could be considered 90% prokaryotic.
2) How do bacteria enable a baby to extract nutrition from the mother’s milk? (See the paper and be very specific about the enzymes involved).
*Questions 3 – 7. Use supportive evidence from the assigned reading and at least one additional source per question.
*3) How could the bacterial microbiome impact obesity?
*4.) What is Clostridium difficile and why is a Clostridium difficile infection so difficult to treat?
*5.) How can bacteria impact cardiac disease?
*6) How might the bacterial microbiota affect type 2 diabetes?
*7) How can bacteria impact autoimmune diseases?
8.) How does Vibrio fischeri control bioluminescence?
9.) Define pathogenicity and virulence.
10). What are anti-quorum sensing molecules and what might they replace someday?
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