Schylah wrote:I know that Malaria is a pretty common mosquito disease in some continents like Asia and Africa... With that in mind..
1.) Is there a cure for Malaria? If so, what is it?
2.) How many people die from Malaria each year? (Please show the statistics for men, women, and children.)
1.Antiparasitics. And I think antimalarial drugs are a thing too. Pretty sure the specific one would depend on each case, but common ones would include: chloroquine, dihydroartemisinin, daraprim (I only remember the brand name for this one, oops), qualaquine (again, only remember brand name), and mefloquine (<-- not sure, I may just be guessing --quines at this point).
2. Don't know. Probably around a million, and I think most are children.
Re: Microbe Mission B/C
Posted: November 5th, 2016, 7:35 pm
by Alex-RCHS
Could we start this up again?
Name a heterotrophic organism that possesses plastids.
Re: Microbe Mission B/C
Posted: November 6th, 2016, 4:49 pm
by rafaelnadal
Most bacteria have plasmids!
Re: Microbe Mission B/C
Posted: November 6th, 2016, 4:57 pm
by rafaelnadal
Question: Scientists have been trying to find a cure lately for HIV. Recently, there has been a treatment called "cocktail", which has been found to be effective. Describe how this treatment fights against the HIV virus.
Re: Microbe Mission B/C
Posted: November 7th, 2016, 1:10 pm
by Alex-RCHS
In my question I wrote plastids, which are small, complex organelles with more than 2 membranes that were created by endosymbiosis. Chloroplasts are the most famous examples, but they are not found in heterotrophs
The answer I was going for was apicomplexans (formerly sporozoans) which are animal-like protists. They possess a type of plastid called an apicoplast.
Re: Microbe Mission B/C
Posted: November 7th, 2016, 4:05 pm
by rafaelnadal
Rip i read that as plasmids XD, my bad
Re: Microbe Mission B/C
Posted: November 8th, 2016, 7:32 pm
by sciduck
rafaelnadal wrote:Question: Scientists have been trying to find a cure lately for HIV. Recently, there has been a treatment called "cocktail", which has been found to be effective. Describe how this treatment fights against the HIV virus.
"Cocktail" is a combination of drugs that each attacks the virus differently. I think there are six different types, but I don't remember them. And I don't think it's actually a cure--the goal is just to get the virus count low enough to not cause symptoms.
Re: Microbe Mission B/C
Posted: November 9th, 2016, 4:54 pm
by rafaelnadal
sciduck wrote:
rafaelnadal wrote:Question: Scientists have been trying to find a cure lately for HIV. Recently, there has been a treatment called "cocktail", which has been found to be effective. Describe how this treatment fights against the HIV virus.
"Cocktail" is a combination of drugs that each attacks the virus differently. I think there are six different types, but I don't remember them. And I don't think it's actually a cure--the goal is just to get the virus count low enough to not cause symptoms.
Correcto! And yea its really not a "cure", mb. Your turn!
Re: Microbe Mission B/C
Posted: November 10th, 2016, 9:51 am
by sciduck
Describe and name the types of flagellar arrangements.
Re: Microbe Mission B/C
Posted: November 10th, 2016, 4:17 pm
by Alex-RCHS
Monotrichous: 1 flagellum on one end of the cell.
Amphitrichous: 1 flagellum on each end of the cell.
Lophotrichous: 1 or more groups or tufts of flagella.
Peritrichous: flagella distributed relatively uniformly around the cell (cell envelope technically).