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Select the best response to the question. Several patients come to the emergency department with abdominal pain and diarrhea after eating pasta salad at a family picnic. What type of pathogen transmission has occurred?


Definitions:

DNA

Deoxyribonucleic acid, a molecule that carries the genetic instructions used in the growth, development, functioning, and reproduction of all known living organisms and many viruses.

Human Genome

The complete set of nucleic acid sequence for humans, encoded as DNA within the 23 chromosome pairs in cell nuclei and in a small DNA molecule found within individual mitochondria.

Genes

Sequences of DNA that determine characteristics and are inherited from one's parents.

Polygenic

Resulting from many genes.

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