You may not know this, but you are home to a colony of bacteria. You may also not know it, but the health and happiness of that colony of bacteria have a direct effect on your own health and happiness. In short, if we are what we eat, then we may need to make bacteria part of our balanced breakfast.

Microbes are single-celled organisms. They are literally everywhere. Microbes are in the air we breathe, on the surfaces of everything we touch, and inside our bodies. Microbes can be bacteria, fungi, protozoa, or viruses.

A few years ago, scientists began studying the microbial life of our stomachs. Called The American Gut project, this study aims to understand the life of the bacteria that live in our digestive system. According to an article in the New York Times by Michael Pollan, the goal is to gather information on the types and amounts of bacteria in the human gut. Scientists want to describe what a normal healthy microbe and human relationship should look like inside our digestive system. While the research is still in the very early stages, scientists have learned the following:

The strongest and healthiest microbe systems are those with a lot of variety.
The guts of Americans have much less variety than the guts of other populations.
Diets that include a lot of processed foods support less variation in bacteria.
Studying the makeup of our individual bacteria communities will help scientists get a better idea of which bacteria help human bodies. We used to think that bacteria in our bodies were invaders. This new research suggests that bacteria are part of the protective army that keeps us healthy. In fact, our bodies have a hard time recovering from medicines like antibiotics because they disrupt the balance of helpful bacteria. It seems clear from the early evidence that living with bacteria helps us resist invasion from things that make us sick.

Scientists have also learned that microbes might help our guts do things like process vitamins and important nutrients. Some microbes may help us deal with stress, or adapt to changes. Furthermore, there may come a time—in your lifetime—when illness is treated not with antibiotics, but with extra-special microbes that help us defend our bodies from illness.









Based on "A Brief Study of Guts," which best summarizes the goal of new research into bacteria and microbes?
A. To collect a wide variety of microbes in all mammals including humans
B. To find ways to increase our intake of helpful microbes
C. To find evidence to decrease the use of antibacterial soap
D. To understand how microbes populate the human body and what benefit they provide

Answer:

The Right answer is To understand how microbes populate the human body and what benefit they provide.

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D.

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A box contains 57 red marbles, 40 white marbles, and 70 blue marbles.
If a marble is randomly selected from the box, what is the probability that it is blue? Express your answer as a simplified fraction or a decimal
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American League baseball teams play their games with the designated hitter rule, meaning that pitchers do not bat. The league believes that replacing the pitcher, traditionally a weak hitter, with another player in the batting order produces more runs and generates more interest among fans. Below are the average numbers of runs score in American League and National League stadiums for the first half of the 2001 season. **American:** 11.1, 10.8, 10.8, 10.3, 10.3, 10.1,10.0, 9.5, 9.4, 9.3, 9.2, 9.2, 9.0, 8.3 **National:** 14.0, 11.6, 10.4, 10.3, 10.2, 9.5, 9.5, 9.5, 9.5, 9.1, 8.8, 8.4, 8.3, 8.2, 8.1, 7.9 (a) Create two box plots to display this data and comment on what you see. (b) Estimate the mean number of runs scored in American League games with a 95% CI. What concerns do you have about making a similar CI for National League games

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Jamie collected some data on students' average grades and the average number of hours they spend playing video games and found there was a weak negative correlation. Which r value is most likely for this data?

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Shawna went shopping at the thrift store yesterday and came home with 12 items and she only spent $31.50. She only got shirts and pants. If each shirt cost $2 and each pair of pants cost $3.50, which system of equations would represent this situation?

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A home has a room with length 22 feet and width 25 ft.
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By applying Pythagorean theorem to the sides of the right triangle, which has sides as a, b and c, where c is the
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the total cost of kurts required textbooks this quarter is $342.50. optional textbooks cost a total of $65.25. whicg inequality shows the total cost C that kurt could pay for his textbooks?

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If Josh invests $500 in a 5-year fixed interest savings bond that pays 5% per annum, how much will his entire investment be worth at the end of the term?

Evan uses 1/3 of his tickets to ride the loop-d-loop. how many tickets does he use?

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A rectangular boad is 1100 millmeters long and 900 millmeters wide. what is the area of the board in square meters?

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