Bacteria
How do bacteria reproduce?
Binary Fission
Is a virus living or nonliving?
Nonliving
Name one disease caused by a protist?
Malaria
Any disease that becomes worldwide is known as what?
Pandemic
Lyme disease is spread by a tick that attaches to an animal to feed. Which describes the roll of a tick?
The tick is a vector
What is the treatment for a bacterial disease?
antibiotics
Name the 2 parts that are always present in a virus?
Nucleic acid (RNA or DNA) and a capsid
How do fungi reproduce?
Spores
A schoolwide outbreak of influenza would be considered what?
Epidemic
Which pathogen is the smallest?
Virus
Is bacteria unicellular or multicellular?
Unicellular
What is the capsid made of?
Protein
What type of protist is responsible for nearly half of all photosynthesis in the world?
Algae
Pandemics are harder to treat than epidemics. Why is this?
Pandemics are worldwide while epidemics are isolated to a particular area.
Why do we need to constantly develop new antibiotics for treatment of bacterial infections?
Bacteria are constantly mutating
Prokaryotic
Name one example of a viral disease.
InFLUenza, COVID, HIV, AIDs, Hepatitis
What is one disease caused by a fungi?
Athletes foot
What is the BEST way stop an epidemic from becoming a pandemic?
vaccination
Ten students got sick after a birthday party. What is the best explanation of why they all got sick?
Contact with an infected person.
Tuberculosis, Strep throat, Cellulitis, Black plague, etc.
How can treatment of a virus be approached?
What is the one fungi that is not is NOT multicellular?
Yeast
What aspect of modern life causes epidemics to turn into pandemics?
travel
Which of the following is NOT caused by a virus?
Hepatitis, HIV, strep throat, influenza
strep throat