Janus Is a Keen Baseball Player at the High School

question 21

Multiple Choice

Janus is a keen baseball player at the high school where you are employed as a nurse. He comes to your office and shows you an injury to his knee which he got by sliding into home base, scoring a game-winning run. His knee has a red, raw patch where the skin has been scraped off, and the area around the wound is swollen. Janus tells you that he washed his knee with soap and water to remove any germs and then put a bandage on it.
-Janus asks you if there is something he can use to kill any bacteria in his wound without affecting any of his own body cells. You tell him that some antibiotics kill bacteria by targeting ________, a compound unique to bacteria.

• A) protein
• B) nuclear membrane
• C) flagella
• D) peptidoglycan
• E) chitin

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Definitions:

Need for Cognition

An individual's tendency to engage in and enjoy activities that require thinking, reasoning, and problem-solving.

Problem Solving

The cognitive process(es) used in transforming starting information into a goal state using specified means of solution.

Verbal Comprehension

The ability to understand words, sentences, and texts; often assessed in psychological testing as an aspect of cognitive ability.

Expressional Fluency

A measure of an individual's ability to swiftly find words and articulate ideas effectively.