Create a Word document to answer each of the following 10 questions.  Your answers should be written in YOUR OWN WORDS in paragraph style.  Remember to use APA format; include your name and a works cited page.

This document is the sole property of your professor.  Any unapproved sharing, posting, or other collusion is an academic offense and will be reported to the university and/or tuition assistance benefactor.

1. Describe three uses of beneficial microbes.

2. What are the four main organic macromolecules of the body?  Discuss what they have in common.  Give an example where in the body each may be found and thecorresponding function.

3. A patient must be adequately hydrated before surgery and so receives IV fluids in pre-op.  Why does the IV bag contain "saline" rather than distilled water?

4. Consider the 5 levels of organization within the body.  How can prolonged exposure to cigarette smoke affect each of these levels?  (What are the implications of damage to each of these levels?)

5. Explain why antibiotics are not only useless to prescribe for someone with the flu, but may actually be harmful.

6. Compare and contrast osteoporosis, osteomalacia, and osteomyelitis.

7. Explain why spinal cord injury (paralysis) is accompanied by muscle atrophy.

8. Discuss why people addicted to methamphetamines often sleep very little, suffer extreme mood swings, and become very thin.

9.  What is the link between gustation and olfaction?  Be sure to discuss the anatomy involved with each.

10. Always a hard workerwith  perfect attendance, Carlos recently received a promotion to CEO of his company.  But since taking the new job with longer hours and greater responsibility, he continues to miss more and more work due to debilitating headaches and sickness.  Explain specifically why the new job is to blame for his absence from work.  (What is occurring physiologically?)