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INFECTIOUS DISEASES
CANCER
VACCINES
FORENSICS
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100
Alexander Fleming discovered this antibiotic -
What is Penicillin?
100
This cancer accounts for more than 1/2 of the deaths in children with cancer.
What is leukemia?
100
Vaccines are created when a disease outbreak is global or ___________.
What is pandemic?
100
This is known as the application of science and technology to establish facts in legal cases.
What is Forensic Science?
100

This is the biggest challenge to successful use of pig organs in human transplants.

What is rejection?

200
A new infectious disease emerges in Africa - this type of research will begin in America -
What is Basic Research?
200
People who smoke are this much more likely to develop cancer than those who do not smoke. Please state you answer numbers.
What is 10 to 20 times more likely?
200
_________ are special proteins produced by the body to attach to foreign invaders such as pathogens.
What is antibodies?
200
This is the application of medical knowledge to legal issues.
What is Forensic Medicine?
200
This type of cloning is supported by most medical scientists.
What is Therapeutic Cloning?
300
This medication typically given to humans can be given to dogs to treat a bladder infection.
What is Amoxicillin?
300
These 2 factors are know to contribute to cancer development.
What is hereditary and environmental?
300
____________ are substances, usually proteins or polysaccharides that cause the body to produce antibodies.
What is Antigens?
300
This person is a medical doctor in charge of death investigations; she/he is employed by the state.
What is a Medical examiner?
300
Given as the reason & purpose for performing embryonic stem cell research - ____________________________.
What is to develop new & better ways to treat disease?
400
Pharmaceutical companies use this to produce insulin in the laboratory __________.
What is bacteria?
400
As people we all have a __________ risk of developing cancer.
What is lifetime risk?
400
People can become sick despite being vaccinated for the flu because ________________________________.
What is was exposed to a strain of flu that was different from the one he/she was vaccinated against?
400
This is a person who can assist with identifying the race of a deceased.
What is Forensic anthropologist?
400
This disease is spread primarily by direct contact.
What is Rabies?
500
A __________ is a disease causing agent. It usually refers to a virus, bacteria, fungi or protozoan parasite.
What is a Pathogen?
500
Cancer is characterized or defined as this ______ _____ _____.
What is uncontrolled cell division?
500
It is impossible at this time to produce a vaccine to prevent these 3 viruses:
What is Rhinoviruses, coronaviruses and adenoviruses.
500
Each person’s DNA is different from other people - except for ______________.
What is identical twins?
500
This disease has a long latent period that uses an enzyme to copy itself into a host cell.
What is AIDS?