Use the Information in the Following Paragraph to Answer the Next

question 31

Multiple Choice

Use the information in the following paragraph to answer the next few questions.
A hypothetical bacterium swims among human intestinal contents until it finds a suitable location on the intestinal lining. It adheres to the intestinal lining using a feature that also protects it from phagocytes, bacteriophages, and dehydration. Fecal matter from a human in whose intestine this bacterium lives can spread the bacterium, even after being mixed with water and boiled. The bacterium is not susceptible to the penicillin family of antibiotics. It contains no plasmids and relatively little peptidoglycan.
-In which feature(s) should one be able to locate a complete chromosome of this bacterium?
1) nucleolus
2) prophage
3) endospore
4) nucleoid

• A) 4 only
• B) 1 and 3
• C) 2 and 3
• D) 3 and 4
• E) 2, 3, and 4

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Definitions:

Generalization

In psychology, the tendency to respond in the same way to different but similar stimuli.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired together; a response that is initially elicited by the second stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone.

Spontaneous Recovery

The reappearance of a previously extinguished response after a period without exposure to the conditioned stimulus.

Principle

A fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behavior or for a chain of reasoning.