​Match the Term or Phrase with the Correct Description

question 7

Multiple Choice

​Match the term or phrase with the correct description.
-​sterilant

• A)​Method used to determine immunity or susceptibility to diphtheria
• B)​A hypothesis or basic assumption based on scientific study and deduction
• C)​Early theory that living things spontaneously arise from non-living materials
• D)​Inoculation of a healthy individual with fluid from cowpox pustules to gain immunity
• E)​Term used by von Leeuwenhoek to describe microscopic organisms
• F)​The process of passing genetic material between bacterial cells
• G)​Extensive, possibly world-wide disease outbreak involving large groups
• H)​Early theory that disease was spread by "bad air"
• I)​Any agent capable of destroying all microbial life, including spores
• J)Condition of being vulnerable to disease due to ineffective natural body defenses

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Definitions:

Probability

The chance that a particular outcome of an event will occur; depends on the total number of outcomes possible.

Event Occur

A phrase suggesting the happening or occurrence of an event or action.

Time-Tested

Proven to be reliable or effective over a long period.

Deductive Reasoning

A logical process in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the stated premises, proceeding from the general to the specific.