Your Patient Asks You Whether There Were Also Viruses on the Slide

question 26

Multiple Choice

Your patient asks you whether there were also viruses on the slide. You tell her

• A) yes, but they are of no concern because they are part of her normal microbiota.
• B) maybe, but there were too few to observe among the bacteria.
• C) maybe, but viruses cannot be observed without an electron microscope.
• D) unlikely, because viruses seldom cause sore throats in people.
• E) no, because viruses would be destroyed by the decolorizing step of the Gram stain.

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Definitions:

Explicitly Caught

To be explicitly caught refers to explicitly handling exceptions using try-catch blocks in programming, as opposed to allowing exceptions to be handled by default handlers.

Try-Catch-Throw Trio

This refers to the combination of using try and catch blocks along with a throw statement in exception handling, allowing for errors to be caught and possibly re-thrown for further handling.

Handling Exceptions

Handling exceptions involves writing code that responds to errors during program execution in a controlled manner, thereby preventing the program from crashing unexpectedly.

RuntimeException

A type of exception in programming that indicates errors that can occur during the execution of a program and are not checked by the compiler, such as division by zero or invalid array indexes.