When posting on the discussion board, you should ignore other students and not respond to their posts. a. true b. false

Viral infections in plants ) can be controlled with antibioticsb) can spread within a plant via plasmodesmata c) have little effect on plant growthd) are not spread by animals

Which of the following represents a difference between viruses and viroids? a) viruses infect many types of cells, whereas viroids infect only prokaryotic cells.b) viruses have capsids composed of protein, whereas viroids have no capsids.c) viruses have genomes composed of rna, whereas viroids have genomes composed of dna.d) viruses cannot pass through plasmodesmata, whereas viroids can.

Lyme disease is caused by a bacterium transmitted to people by deer ticks. deer ticks are almost never born infected with the bacterium, but they can pick it up from feeding on an infected host in any of the tick's three successive stage of development: larva, nymph, adult. once infected, a tick remains infected through any subsequent developmental stages, but since a tick feeds on only one host in each stage, it follows that . people can be infected only by being bitten by a tick that is either in larval stage or in the nymph stage b. people cannot be infected by a tick that picked up the lyme disease bacterium in the adult stage c. it is not possible for a person to be infected by a tick that is in the nymph stage or by a tick that was infected with the bacterium while in the nymph stage d. people infected with the lyme disease bacterium cannot transmit bacterium to adult deer ticks e. only deer ticks that are adults can transmit the lyme disease bacterium to people