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Maintenance of personal and public hygiene is very important for prevention and control of many infectious diseases. Measures for personal hygiene include keeping the body clean, consumption of clean drinking water, food, vegetables, fruits, etc. Public hygiene includes proper disposal of waste and excreta; periodic cleaning and disinfection of water reservoirs, pools, and tanks. These measures are particularly essential where the infectious agents are transmitted through food and water such as typhoid, amoebiasis and ascariasis. In cases of air-borne diseases such as pneumonia and common cold, in addition to the above measures, close contact with the infected persons or their belongings should be avoided. For diseases such as malaria and filariasis that are transmitted through insect vectors, the most important measure is to control or eliminate the vectors and their breeding places. This can be achieved by avoiding stagnation of water in and around residential areas, regular cleaning of household coolers, use of mosquito nets, introducing fishes like Gambusia in ponds that feed on mosquito larvae, spraying of insecticides in ditches, drainage areas and swamps, etc.

Introducing of fishes like Gambusia into ponds to get rid of mosquitoes is referred to as

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biomagnification

b

ecological sanitation

c

biological control 

d

expression cloning

answer is C.

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Certain environmental issues (biomagnification) came into light with indiscriminate use of chemical control (e.g., DDT) methods to get rid of mosquitoes. The biological control methods, which suppress vector populations through introduction/manipulation of organisms (natural enemies, e.g., parasites, disease organisms and predatory animals) are eco-friendly methods. Gambusia is a larvivorous fish which feeds on larvae of mosquito.

Biomagnification is the accumulation of toxic substances like DDT in the successive trophic levels.

Ecological sanitation is an eco-friendly method for the disposal of human excreta.

Expression cloning is a technique in DNA cloning that uses expression vectors to generate a library of clones, with each clone expressing one protein.

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