Monday, September 2, 2013

Study Of TB Genetic Origin Shows Human Beginnings, Importance Of How Humans And TB Co-Developed

TB Has Human, Not Animal, Origins--Says Study by Julie Gould.  BBC News.  September 2, 2013.

(1)  An importance of this study for human health is that if scientists can understand how TB and humans co-developed then that knowledge would help ________________________.

(2)  The researchers combined geographic and genetic data from _______ strains of TB to reconstruct its evolutionary history and compare it to the origins of humans in Africa.

(3)  The ability of TB to ___________ reactivate itself may explain how it survived in people for so long.

(4)  The hypothesis presented by this study is that TB developed in __________ and was transmitted to animals during the NDT or __________________.


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