Please Select the False Statement Regarding Plague and Its Transmission

question 33

Multiple Choice

Please select the False statement regarding plague and its transmission.

• A) Plague is caused by a Gram-negative organism and is thus completely untreatable with antibiotics.
• B) Yersinia pestis is a Gram-negative organism and thus possess an outer lipopolysaccharide layer.
• C) People can contract plague when they are bitten by fleas from rodents infected with the causative organism.
• D) Y. pestis is typically transmitted by the bites of infected fleas, an example of biological transmission.
• E) The incidence of vector-borne diseases such as plague can be decreased by controlling the vector or the infected hosts.

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Definitions:

Collenchyma

In plants, simple tissue composed of living cells with unevenly thickened walls; provides flexible support.

Pectin

A natural polysaccharide found in fruits, used as a gelling agent in food production.

Parenchyma

A type of plant tissue composed of living cells, usually having only thin primary walls and varying widely by morphology and metabolism.

Photosynthesis

The process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods with carbon dioxide and water, producing oxygen as a byproduct.