7. Using to Table 1 to assist you, explain the rational for the diversity of the mycobiome, as compared to the number of bacterial species identified in the lungs of CF patients. This should be a full paragraph, not one or two sentences. Solution From the tabulated data given, it can be clearly noticed that majority of the population suffers from ascomycete infections. Particularly, the most infectious species can be identified as Candida albicans followed by C. dubliniensis. Saccharomyces cerevisiae infections are also very high followed by C. parapsilosis and C. glabrata. Other types of infections are also evident in patients but these organisms remain the most frequent infective agents for patients with cystic fibrosis. Since all of these microbes spread the disease from one organism to another, they are highly communicable in nature. Also, since very high frequency of some of the species can be noticed from the data, it is also suggested that the infections are opportunistic in nature i.e. they will infect the individual as soon as his immunity against these microbes is minimized. Importantly, since a huge population is suffering form nearly similar kind of infections, it can be suggested that fixation of these microbial infections is possible in this population which can be clinically deleterious in advanced stages because eradication of these microbes using multiple antibiotic treatment would be difficult. Hence, it can be evaluated from the data that the statisitical figures are clinically alarming and demand immediate attention..