Bubonic Plague
Rock Pocket Mouse
Immune System
Antibiotic Resistance
Potpourri
100
Bubonic Plague swept through Europe in this century.
What is the 1300's?
100
These are the two types of fur color in rock pocket mouse populations.
What are light and dark?
100
These white blood cells support other types of immune cells and allow them to do their job.
What are Helper T Cells?
100
This the reason that some bacteria are resistant to antibiotics while others are not.
What is a mutation?
100
Mold, pollen, and certain foods can trigger this.
What is an allergic reaction?
200
Yersinia pestis is this kind of pathogen.
What is bacteria?
200
This kind of geologic event changed the environment of the rock pocket mouse.
What is volcanic eruption?
200
This happens when the immune system attacks the body's own healthy cells.
What is an autoimmune disorder?
200
True or False -- Antibiotics are not used against viruses.
What is TRUE?
200
A person with Type AB blood can only donate to those with this blood type.
What is Type AB?
300
These bruised, swollen lymph nodes are a symptom of bubonic plague.
What are "buboes"?
300
This type of fur color gave some mice an advantage after the environment changed.
What is dark fur?
300
Immunosuppressant medicines are given to a patient that has received this.
What is an organ transplant?
300
Antibiotics interfere with bacteria's ability to build this.
What is a cell wall?
300
True or False -- Vaccines are used to prevent infections, NOT to treat them.
What is TRUE?
400
This image shows an important profession during the time of the plague.
What is Plague Doctor?
400
Having the same fur color as the background environment enabled some mice to do this.
What is avoid predators?
400
This contains a weak or dead pathogen.
What is a traditional vaccine?
400
This type of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) uses bacteriophages to transmit genes from one bacterium to another.
What is transduction?
400
This is the kind of environment that rock pocket mice live in.
What is a desert?
500
Describe the pace at which the plague spread in cities and densely populated areas.
What is FAST?
500
This is what causes different mice to have different fur colors.
What is a mutation?
500
These white blood cells make antibodies.
What are Memory B cells?
500
This is what happens to resistant bacteria when a person STOPS taking an antibiotic too early.
What is the bacteria reproduce?
500
These are the building blocks of antibodies and antigens.
What are amino acids?