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To encourage you to make the connection between textbook biology and biology that appears in daily newspapers and weekly periodicals, you will write a short paper that will help you recognize how science and technology influence and contribute to modern culture. Begin by clicking the Biology in the News link above, then select the Evaluation Criteria file to view the instructions for this assignment.
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Biology 1409 Special Event: Microbe Hunters
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1. Name the person giving the lecture.
The person is Dr. Donald Ganem, MD from the Department of the University of California
2. What disease has he investigated?
Dr. Donald Ganem has investigated Hepatitis, HIV and among other diseases
3. What type of organism caused Bubonic Plague?
Bubonic Plague is a bacterial infection that is carried by rats and transmitted to human
beings by the bite of infected fleas.
4. What did scientists believe about infectious diseases in the 1960s?
In the 1960s many scientists believed that the vaccine development and antibiotics
advancement in public health and sanitation that resulted in enormous triumphs over several
infectious illnesses, which inspired self-confidence, was misplaced.
5. Where did you see art incorporated into the idea of infectious diseases?
On the “Sunday Times Magazine” whereby Photographer named Joel Peter Witkin
posted a picture juxtaposing the bones of a 14th-century plague victim with the body of a
young man at the risk of HIV. By presenting this image, Dr. Donald Ganem wants to show
that the idea of infectious diseases is a subject alive in the popular imagination, not just
among scientists.
6. Do viruses fit our criteria for life? Explain
NO. This is because viruses lack the ability to grow and develop or for self-reproduction a
host cell. For purposes of self-reproduction, they have to live inside a host cell for ribosome,
enzymes, and protein synthesis.
7. How did the lecturer illustrate the relative sizes of viruses and other organisms?
The lecturer described bacterium as the size of a football. On the other hand, he
compared the size of a l...