Categories ABC
What governing body made these bioterrorism categories: A, B, and C?
What is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)?
Which agent can change itself in response to stimuli?
What is a biological agent?
Antibiotic treatment is aimed at killing what type of infectious agent?
What is bacteria?
What division of the immune response includes our skin?
What is the innate immune response?
What hijacks host cellular machinery for protein synthesis and reproduction?
What are viruses?
What is an example of a category B biological weapon?
What is Salmonella, Brucellosis, Ricin Toxin, or EEE virus?
Typically, which type of infectious agent is smaller than a bacterium?
What is a virus?
Which category of health response would vaccination fall under?
What is prevention?
What division of the immune response gets more specific and diverse towards pathogens with increased contact?
What is the adaptive immune response?
Biological weapons can target humans and these two organisms.
What are plants and animals?
Which category contains the most “severe” diseases?
What is category A?
This type of weapon is often contained in artillery shells and grenades.
What are chemical weapons?
Vaccines work by inducing the synthesis of which main antiviral protein?
What are antibodies?
Name the Y shape protein that binds to antigens
What is an antibody?
What percentage of “our cells” are bacterial?
What is 56%?
Which category would “black biology” fall under?
What is category C?
A harmful protein is synthesized as a weapon, which type of weapon would it be?
What is a biological weapon?
Misuse and overuse of antibiotics can result in ______.
What is antibiotic resistance?
Name one action of a macrophage?
What is phagocytosis?
There are more of these pathogens than stars in the universe.
What are viruses?
What is a common modification for pathogens by “black biology”?
What is increasing shelf life?
A kilogram of which agent would be as deadly as the atomic bomb on Hiroshima?
What is anthrax?
A patient comes in with descending muscle weakness and probable exposure to Clostridium botulinum, what kind of treatment should they receive?
What is antitoxin?
Tears and saliva contain what type of enzyme that breaks up pathogens?
What are lysozymes?
Name two ways to dispose of a biological weapon stockpile.
What are heat and UV?