African Sleeping Sickness Is Transmitted by

question 24

Multiple Choice

African sleeping sickness is transmitted by

• A) ticks.
• B) black flies.
• C) Aedes mosquitoes.
• D) tsetse flies.
• E) tsetse mosquitoes.

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Definitions:

Enzymes

Biological catalysts that speed up chemical reactions in living organisms.

Pyrimidine

Pyrimidine is a nitrogenous base found in DNA and RNA, crucial for the structure of genetic information, including two of the DNA bases, cytosine and thymine, and the RNA base uracil.

Double-ring Molecule

Compounds containing two connected cyclic structures, which can include aromatic compounds such as naphthalene.

Nucleic Acid

Complex organic substances that serve as the blueprint for genetic information in living organisms, primarily DNA andRNA, which encode the instructions for synthesizing proteins.