You note a cell culture dish of virus-infected cells that appear to be experiencing cytopathic effects. To test the mechanism of cell death you observe that p53 is activated and that the virus titer is increasing over time in the cell culture supernatant. What can you conclude?

Which virus is the causative agent of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE)?

Zach and Nick are starting a floor cleaning service. It takes Nick 10 minutes to vacuum a standard sized floor and 20 minutes to mop the floor. It takes Zach 20 minutes to vacuum a standard sized floor and 30 minutes to mop the floor. Their floor cleaning service will be more productive if

When inflation functions as a type of tax (often referred to as “the inflation tax”), which of the following groups of people will be hurt the most?

Consider a labor market in a very small economy. The labor demanded and supplied are dependent on the wage rate . Suppose specifically that the quantity of labor supplied is  and the quantity of labor demanded is

According to the Solow model, why should a country be expected to have a higher real GDP growth rate after a war? Since capital would have been destroyed during the war, any new capital just following the war would go to relatively more productive uses. Capital exhibits diminishing returns. After a war, a country would be growing from a lower base level of capital and its growth rate would be higher.

Business fluctuations being caused by shocks to Aggregate Demand rely on the assumption that prices and wages are slow to adjust to economic shocks (sticky). Which of the following could explain why some prices and wages are sticky?

  We discussed in class that the top 1% income earners alone pay close to 25% of all federal taxes. The top 20% pay approximately what percent of all federal taxes?

Define viremia

Since most tumor formation is blocked by the immune system, when HIV infection decreases immune protection, the virus also increases the incidence rates of various cancers.