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A gene for disease resistance in fir trees is transferred to pine trees using modern DNA technology. How might this be economically helpful to tree farmers?
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How is Lyme disease transferred or caused?
bite the tick or sexually trans metted
What is the epidermal cell that has a role in immunity and disease resistance?
Langerhans
What does the term resistance means in microbiology?
The ability to ward off a disease
What is the study of how genes are transferred from parents to their children and the role of genes in health and disease is known as?
Genetics
Which cell provide non specific cellular disease resistance mechanism?
macrophages
A natural resistance to disease is an?
A natural resistance to disease is an??
Many crops such as tomatoes and corn are now routinely genetically manipulated to become more resistant to disease and herbicides What is one disadvantage of this genetic resistance?
The genes may be transferred to weeds during pollination.
The resistance of an organism to disease is known as?
The resistance of an organism to disease is known as immunity. This defense mechanism helps protect the body from harmful pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, and parasites.
Why is pneaumonia is a communicable disease?
Pneumonia is essentially a communicable disease. As it can be transferred from one person to another.
What provides disease resistance in the lungs?
Macrophages
How you call resistance to disease or poison?
Immune
A disease to which native americans had no resistance?
smallpox
Resistance to disease or poison?
Immunity is the resistance to disease or poison. This means that the body is capable of fighting the infection without the aid of medical intervention.
What has the author J E Vanderplank written?
J. E. Vanderplank has written: 'Plant diseases' 'Disease resistance in plants' -- subject(s): Plants, Disease and pest resistance, Plant Disease
Could a human disease mutate so that it affected crops?
That is practically not possible for a disease to to get mutated and transferred to crops. At the most the disease confined to human can get mutated. It can be transferred to the primates. That can be imagined. Such transfer from the animal kingdom to plant kingdom is not possible and not known.
Can diabetes be transferred sexually?
No, diabetes is not a sexually transmitted disease (STD).
The natural defenses your body has against disease?
Resistance.
