A Patient Enters Your Clinic with a Suspected Helminthic Infection

question 9

Multiple Choice

A patient enters your clinic with a suspected helminthic infection. In support of this diagnosis, you suspect elevated levels of which antibody in the patient's serum?

• A) IgG
• B) IgM
• C) IgE
• D) IgD

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Definitions:

Tertiary Consumer

An organism that typically eats secondary consumers, residing at or near the top of a food chain and usually a carnivore or an omnivore.

Ecological Efficiency

A measure of the energy transfer between different trophic levels in an ecosystem, typically representing how much energy from a lower level is available for use at the next level.

Trophic Level

The position that an organism occupies in a food chain, which is a measure of its feeding level.

Decomposers

Organisms, such as bacteria and fungi, that break down dead organisms and waste materials into simpler substances.