BIOL 201 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Antigenic Drift, Antigenic Shift, Reassortment

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The mid-term exam will include 6 questions of similar style to those below. This exam will cover all material up to and including the green algae. Fungi will be covered in the final exam at the end of term using questions of a similar style to those below: structure usually relates to function in living organisms. Provide three distinct examples from prokaryotic organisms to illustrate this concept. Endospore development to survive periods of unfavourable environmental conditions; granules (inclusion bodies) for storage of food reserves. Heterocysts to provide an anaerobic intracellular environment for n fixation in cyanobacteria: the biology of viruses is important to human societies in many different ways. Smallpox led to the development of vaccines as a preventative medical procedure. Viruses such as phages are very important tools in molecular biology. In the history of human colonisation, virus transmission to societies that had not developed immunity resulted in major local population declines (e. g. incans,