The Basics
The three domains of life include eukaryotes, archaea, and .....
What are bacteria?
Disease (pathogen) transmitted by the bite of an insect.
Antibiotic resistance is an example of this type of evolutionary pressure, resulting from competitive advantage of strains that can persist in the presence of the antibiotic.
What is natural selection?
These types of projections in the US suggest that tick borne infections (Lyme) will increase their geographical and seasonal range.
What is climate change?
The universal housekeeping gene in bacteria that is commonly used to differentiate 'species' using sequence comparisons?
What is the 16S rRNA gene?
What is a virus?
The most common cause of disease outbreaks drinking water in the US.
What is Legionella?
The leading type of food associated with food borne illnesses in the US.
What are leafy vegetables?
Human and marine pathogen that reproduces quickly as water temperatures increase.
What is Vibrio?
Cloud formation can be enhanced when this bacterial species is present.
What is Pseudomonas syringae?
Infects animals as well as humans
What is zoonotic?
Causes among the largest number of cases of water borne disease from recreational water in the US but few outbreaks (also most common cause of gastroenteritis in adults).
What is norovirus?
An integrated unifying approach that balances the health of people, animals, and the environment.
What is one health?
Drying climate and increased construction activity can increase this pathogen (Latin name) that is endemic to the southwest US.
What is Coccidiodes immitis?
The symbiotic bacteria in the gut of mosquitoes that can help prevent transmission of Dengue fever.
What is Wolbachia?
The best estimate of the earliest life on earth (billion of years ago)
What is 3.8?
Of the three main barriers to transmission of enteric disease this one has been the most difficult to improve.
What is sanitation?
E coli is one example of this group that is used as a proxy for fecal contamination and health risk in water and food.
What is a fecal indicator?
Over _____ (%) of known human infectious diseases can be aggravated by climate change according to a recent paper in Nature.
What is 50?
The term for all of the microbial populations present in a specific environment.
What is a microbial community?
A Gram positive bacterium is purple because it has a large amount of this material in the cell well, which holds onto crystal violet.
What is peptidoglycan?
Increasing this can lower CO2 levels indoors and prevent indoor transmission of respiratory pathogens.
What is ventilation?
The CDC reporting system that carefully tracks information on specific food borne illnesses in a handful of states.
What is FoodNet?
The region with the most pronounced change in temperature associated with climate change.
What are the poles?
Brain eating amoeba
What is Naeglara fowleri?