You Have Found a Mutant of Streptococcus Pneumoniae That Has

question 31

Multiple Choice

You have found a mutant of Streptococcus pneumoniae that has lost the ability to produce a capsule.If you inject this strain into a population of healthy mice,what prediction can you make about the consequences?

• A)The mice will remain healthy.
• B)The mice will die of pneumonia.
• C)The mice will get a severe case pneumonia and recover.
• D)The infection in the mice will respond to antiviral medication.

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Definitions:

Withdrawal

Symptoms that occur upon the reduction or cessation of intake of a substance that one has become dependent on.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process that occurs through associations between an environmental stimulus and a naturally occurring stimulus, leading to learned responses.

Operant Conditioning

A learning process through which the strength of a behavior is modified by reinforcement or punishment, introduced by B.F. Skinner.

Observational Learning

The process of learning behaviors by watching the actions of others, and the outcomes of those actions.