With the rise of drug-resistant bacteria in hospitals there has been an effort to develop new antibiotics as well as novel methods to combat resistant infections. The sequencing of entire communities of microbes including environmental samples has led to the discovery of millions of uncharacterized bacteria that could provide new drugs. This sequencing method is called ________.Group of answer choicesshotgun genomicsenvironmental genomicsbiomimetic genomicswhole-community sequencing

How has the Human Microbiome Project impacted medical research?Group of answer choicesIt has led to a better understanding of the human immune system and its interactions with microbesIt has led to the development of new antibioticsIt has revealed the importance of the human microbiome in health and diseaseIt has helped to identify new drug targets for treating human diseases

Deep sequencing is a technique where Blank______ is(are) scanned and analyzed many times to reduce error.Multiple choice question.genomes of multiple microbesa single genomea single gene

Data from which of the following sequencing methods would be most problematic to assemble around a 600 bp insertion sequence that was repeated 15 times in a bacterial genome?Question 12Answera.MinIon Nanoporeb.Sangerc.Single-molecule real-time sequencing (SMRT)d.Illumina

The term antimicrobials describes Blank______.Multiple choice question.a drug given to prevent illness in someone at risk for infectionany drug that works against microbes, no matter which microbes are targetsa drug that works against a wide variety of microbesa drug that works only against bacteria

The aerobic gram- enteric are among the microbes that commonly show resistance to antibiotics.