Readings Study Guide 8 - Practice questions

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SECTION 1
Chapter 1
Chapter 22
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7

SECTION 2
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15

SECTION 3
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21

Choose the BEST answer. You can check your answers after you have taken this practice quiz. Go back and see if you can find where this information was presented in the assigned readings.

1. Parasites (e.g. ticks) often serve as __________ of disease.
   1. epicenters
   2. ontogeny.
   3. conspirators.
   4. amplifiers.
   5. vectors.
2. Chronic wasting disease, a TSE, is caused by a pathogen known as a:
   1. virus, which has RNA.
   2. virus that has DNA.
   3. bacterium with flagella.
   4. a prion with no DNA or RNA.
   5. a prion with both DNA and RNA.
3. The following is a term used to describe a disease in an eruptive state in a population?
   1. irruption
   2. hybridization
   3. epizootic
   4. enzootic
   5. rabidization.
4. The most commonly reported vector-borne disease in humans in the United States is:
   1. botulism
   2. communism
   3. sickle-cell anemia
   4. Lyme disease
   5. Ebola Zaire.
5. This term refers to the time it takes from infection with a virus to exhibit clinical signs of the disease?
   1. blatant period
   2. photoperiod
   3. periodicity
   4. incubation period
   5. lethality

6. Chronic wasting disease, an encephalopathy, affects the:

1. digestive system

2. excretory system

3. nervous system

4. reproductive system

5. cardiovascular system