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HANDOUT 31: THE EVOLUTIONARY ARMS RACE VIDEO
1. Where did microbes in Russia evolve?
2. Why is the newt so toxic?
3. Are the snakes resistant to the toxin in the newt?
4. What is the cost to the snake of being toxin resistant?
5. What are biological forces?
6. What is humans only predator?
7. What was the name of the first antibiotic?
8. What is the disease that affects Russia’s prisons?
9. How many people die from TB a year?
10. How many antibiotics that are given to patients unnecessary?
11. What is the outcome of taking unnecessary antibiotics?
12. What is the connection between harmfulness and transmission?
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13. What other animal did dogs evolve from?
14. Why are wild cats safe from FIV?
15. Are there humans with HIV- resistant mutations?
16. What is mutualistic symbiosis?
17. List examples from the video of mutualistic symbiosis.
18. What is the white waxy buildup on leafcutter ants?
19. Are we making our world too clean?
20. What might be causing the increase in asthma and allergies?
21. What is helping the immune system of children in the Bavarian
countryside?
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