1) Explain how the human body could be considered 90% prokaryotic.

2) How do bacteria enable a baby to extract nutrition from the mother’s milk? (See the paper and be very specific about the enzymes involved).

*Questions 3 – 7. Use supportive evidence from the assigned reading and at least one additional source per question.

*3) How could the bacterial microbiome impact obesity?

*4.) What is Clostridium difficile and why is a Clostridium difficile infection so difficult to treat?

*5.) How can bacteria impact cardiac disease?

*6) How might the bacterial microbiota affect type 2 diabetes?

*7) How can bacteria impact autoimmune diseases?

8.) How does Vibrio fischeri control bioluminescence?

9.) Define pathogenicity and virulence.

10). What are anti-quorum sensing molecules and what might they replace someday?

Bassler, Bonnie. “How bacteria talk.” TedTalk. 2009. https://www.ted.com/talks/bonnie_bassler_on_how_bacteria_communicate?language=en