Category 1
Where does the immune system begin?
The skin
What types of infections can be passed on to others?
Contagious infections
What is a disease when it can result in death?
Fatal
What gets rid of your disease or illness for good?
A cure
What do you do if you have a contagious disease?
Avoid others
What is a collection of tissues that performs a specific function?
Organ
A substance designed to protect them from future disease
Vaccine
A disease caused when cells divide uncontrollably and spread
Cancer
Medical interventions that target biological aspects of disorders
Treatment
What causes cancer?
Mutations in the body's DNA
Microscopic organisms that infect hosts is called what?
Virus
What is the result of your immune system's response to a substance?
Allergies
An organism causing disease to its host
Pathogen
A secondary, usually wanted effect of medicine
Difference between a treatment and cure?
Treatments help reduce the symptoms but cannot get rid of it completely
What helps prevent germs from infecting the body?
Antibodies
COVID, SARS and Black Death are examples of what?
Pandemic
What infectious disease can be controlled with the flu vaccine?
Influenza
A waxy-fat like substance essential for human life found in all cells in body
Cholesterol
How to decrease your chance of having a heart attack?
Eat healthy diet and exercise!
An invasion and growth of germs in the body
Infection
A disorder of structure of an organism not a direct result of physical injury
Disease
Hereditary
Flow of blood that brings oxygen to heart muscle becomes blocked is called what?
Heart attack
One aspect of a healthy lifestyle?
Exercise!