Which of the Following Statements About Candida Is FALSE

question 61

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about Candida is FALSE?

• A) It can be transmitted to adults during sexual contact.
• B) It is present in the digestive tract of 40- 80% of all healthy individuals.
• C) It causes thrush.
• D) It can be passed to babies during childbirth.
• E) It is easily treated with topical antifungals in immunocompromised patients.

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Definitions:

Incomplete Dominance

Inheritance pattern in which one allele is not fully dominant over another, so the heterozygous phenotype is an intermediate blend between the two homozygous phenotypes.

Heterozygotes

Individuals having two different alleles at a locus, resulting in a variation of a genetic trait.

Codominance

Effect in which the full and separate phenotypic effects of two alleles are apparent in heterozygous individuals.

Heterozygous

Genetic condition of having two different alleles at a locus on a chromosome.