Bill is an overweight 59 year old man who presents to the ER with right foot ankle and calf pain for the past five days. The pain has been getting progressively worse over the past 18 hours and is now at an 9/10 on the pain scale. He has a 28 pack-year smoking history and is a Type 2 diabetic. His right foot is remarkably swollen with the calf swollen to twice the normal size. No skin lesions are noted. Bloodwork revealed a positive “D-dimer” result. Diagnosis?

Aresearcher lyses a cell that contains nucleic acid molecules and capsomeres of tobacco mosaic virus (tmv). the cell contents are left in a covered test tube overnight. the next day this mixture is sprayed on tobacco plants. we expect that the plants would ) develop some but not all of the symptoms of the tmv infectionb) develop the typical symptoms of tmv infectionc) not show any disease symptomsd) become infected, but the sap from these plants would be unable to infect other plants