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yall i'm confused
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why does this question have that answer? in the table, nothing but malaria is actually a disease, so how can the low levels of them following vaccination disprove the notion that vaccines are specific to particular diseases? in fact all of them are secondary complications of measles, so their explanation makes no sense from a biological viewpoint... like obviously some vaccines combat multiple diseases like the triple antigen one, but the data doesn't seem to support it in this scenario.
That's weird actually. But I think don't worry about it too much because you also have the choice of supporting the statement as long as you provide sufficient analysis for your stance. Also dysentery is a disease so maybe they're referring to that??

I would personally support the statement in the question with the only "against" being the dysentery situation. Or say that the statement cannot be fully supported since not enough data is supplied. Cause we don't have any info on how the vaccine will affect other diseases as well.
 

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yall i'm confused
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why does this question have that answer? in the table, nothing but malaria is actually a disease, so how can the low levels of them following vaccination disprove the notion that vaccines are specific to particular diseases? In fact, all of them are secondary complications of measles, so their explanation makes no sense from a biological viewpoint... like obviously some vaccines combat multiple diseases like the triple antigen one, but the data doesn't seem to support it in this scenario.
- idk this one also i got confused but i was talking to a graduate and he said even when u get a question like this even though like biologically its wrong u have to agree with data / statement given as it says ANALYSE THE DATA and like the data does aligin with the statement so like yeh idk if that makes sense but it get it its so stupid but if it was like explain or something u would go againist idk how to explain
 

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yall i'm confused
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why does this question have that answer? in the table, nothing but malaria is actually a disease, so how can the low levels of them following vaccination disprove the notion that vaccines are specific to particular diseases? in fact all of them are secondary complications of measles, so their explanation makes no sense from a biological viewpoint... like obviously some vaccines combat multiple diseases like the triple antigen one, but the data doesn't seem to support it in this scenario.
which paper is this
 

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I think the flask which is open and has been heated, as this disproved the notion of sponatneous generation, meaning that the microbes must have been introduced from the surrounding external environment, compared to the swan necked flask which has no microbes as it has been physically isolated from its external environment. So I would say the 'control' would be the open flask (the control also being the fact that the flasks were heated which would have killed any microbes previously within the broth.
could the temp of the broth be a control? thats what i use
 

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guys im actually cooked i have two exams back to back tmr... AND BOTH OF THEM ARE PROLLY GONNA BE HIGHEST ATAR CONTRIBUTORS SO I HAVE TO DO WELL VDIUASJCXOIQEFHUVDCNOXAKMPO
 

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could the temp of the broth be a control? thats what i use
I mean sure. But in this case, Pasteur boiled the broth, so it wouldn’t matter about temperature. As for afterwoods, I guess having the same temperature would be a control, but this would probably be pointless as it’s not going to change the outcome of the actual experiment too much.
 
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do we need to know ab the diff types of non-coding genes + how they r removed during translation + ab regulatory sequences
 

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We are all fucked expect 2022 difficulty

bht tbh I didn’t find it that bad
 

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