HLTH 340 MIDTERM 1 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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During WW1 and prior to advent of antibiotics, more people
died of infectious disease than battle wounds. True or False?
ANS >>> True
Which of the following has had the biggest impact on reducing
the use of antibiotics in the poultry industry?
a) consumer pressure
b) government regulation
c) inefficiency of antibiotic drugs
d) concern for animal welfare ANS >>> A) consumer pressure
Antibiotic use began with the use of ___ after the discovery of
its medicinal utility by Sir Alexander Fleming.
a) doxycycline
,b) penicillin
c) streptomycin
d) trimethoprim ANS >>> b) penicillin
Doctors tend to overuse antibiotics because
a) they have financial incentives to prescribe more antibiotics
b) they don’t know about the consequences of overuse
c)modern strains of infectious diseases are highly lethal
d) they are afraid of harming their patients by not prescribing
antibiotics ANS >>> d) they are afraid of harming their patients
by not prescribing antibiotics
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is used to store seeds of crops
and wild crop relatives from
a) Africa
b) Asia
c) Around the world
d) Europe ANS >>> c) around the world
,To date, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, or "doomsday vault",
never had a seed withdrawal, only deposits. True or False ANS
>>> False
During the Nazi siege of Leningrad in WWII, the botanists
working under Nikolai Vavilov died of ____ protecting the ____
seeds their group had collected.
a) food poisoning, Mustard
b) torture, coffee
c) starvation, rice
d) injuries from fighting, rice ANS >>> c) starvation, rice
Crop diversity is founded in the diversity of seeds. True or False
ANS >>> True
The Hausa of northern Nigeria have a dichotomous distinction
between "wild" and "domesticated" plants. True or False ANS
>>> False
Among the Hausa of northern Nigeria, medicinal knowledge of
a plant is used to determine its appropriateness as a food. True
or False ANS >>> True
, A species of plant that is known only as a cultivated form, not
known to have a direct wild or uncultivated counterpart
a) cultivar
b) cultigen
c) no cultigen
d) crop ANS >>> b) cultigen
Functional foods are those only eaten for specific therapeutic
reasons. True or False ANS >>> False
Traditional societies such as the Aymara domesticated plants so
that nearly all toxic plant secondary compounds were removed
from their diets. True or False ANS >>> False
Folk taxonomy refers to the way that people classify things
following a vernacular system. True or False ANS >>> True
Johns used all of the following methods to test his hypothesis
about Aymara potato domestication EXCEPT
a) ancient DNA genetic testing for evidence of potato
domestication
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During WW1 and prior to advent of antibiotics, more people
died of infectious disease than battle wounds. True or False?
ANS >>> True
Which of the following has had the biggest impact on reducing
the use of antibiotics in the poultry industry?
a) consumer pressure
b) government regulation
c) inefficiency of antibiotic drugs
d) concern for animal welfare ANS >>> A) consumer pressure
Antibiotic use began with the use of ___ after the discovery of
its medicinal utility by Sir Alexander Fleming.
a) doxycycline
,b) penicillin
c) streptomycin
d) trimethoprim ANS >>> b) penicillin
Doctors tend to overuse antibiotics because
a) they have financial incentives to prescribe more antibiotics
b) they don’t know about the consequences of overuse
c)modern strains of infectious diseases are highly lethal
d) they are afraid of harming their patients by not prescribing
antibiotics ANS >>> d) they are afraid of harming their patients
by not prescribing antibiotics
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is used to store seeds of crops
and wild crop relatives from
a) Africa
b) Asia
c) Around the world
d) Europe ANS >>> c) around the world
,To date, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, or "doomsday vault",
never had a seed withdrawal, only deposits. True or False ANS
>>> False
During the Nazi siege of Leningrad in WWII, the botanists
working under Nikolai Vavilov died of ____ protecting the ____
seeds their group had collected.
a) food poisoning, Mustard
b) torture, coffee
c) starvation, rice
d) injuries from fighting, rice ANS >>> c) starvation, rice
Crop diversity is founded in the diversity of seeds. True or False
ANS >>> True
The Hausa of northern Nigeria have a dichotomous distinction
between "wild" and "domesticated" plants. True or False ANS
>>> False
Among the Hausa of northern Nigeria, medicinal knowledge of
a plant is used to determine its appropriateness as a food. True
or False ANS >>> True
, A species of plant that is known only as a cultivated form, not
known to have a direct wild or uncultivated counterpart
a) cultivar
b) cultigen
c) no cultigen
d) crop ANS >>> b) cultigen
Functional foods are those only eaten for specific therapeutic
reasons. True or False ANS >>> False
Traditional societies such as the Aymara domesticated plants so
that nearly all toxic plant secondary compounds were removed
from their diets. True or False ANS >>> False
Folk taxonomy refers to the way that people classify things
following a vernacular system. True or False ANS >>> True
Johns used all of the following methods to test his hypothesis
about Aymara potato domestication EXCEPT
a) ancient DNA genetic testing for evidence of potato
domestication
