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Definitions
Pathogens & Symbiotic Relationships
STIs
Bacterial Structures
The Zoo On You
100
Microbes that can cause disease in a susceptible individual.
What are pathogens?
100
These pathogens cause disease in people with a weaken immune system
What are opportunistic pathogens?
100
An STD that causes certain types of cervical cancer
What is HPV?
100
It protects the cell from WBCs and the environment.
What is a capsule?
100
The microbes that are on your body all the time
What is normal flora?
200
A sudden acute disease outbreak affecting many people
What an epidemic?
200
In this symbiotic relationship, one cell benefits at the expense of the other
What is parasitism?
200
An STD with the same virus as the one that causes cold sores
What is herpes?
200
It helps bacteria move.
What is flagella?
200
A fungus that grows between the toes
What is athletes foot?
300
The study of all features of the body's second and third lines of defense
What is immunology?
300
In this symbiotic relationship, both cells benefit
What is mutualism?
300
A species of lice
What are crabs?
300
A part of the cell who's main job is energy conversion
What is mitochondria?
300
The bacteria that causes ulcers
What is H. pylori?
400
The process of reducing the number of microbes on human skin
What is degermination?
400
In this symbiotic relationship, one cell benefits and one is unaffected
What is commensalism?
400
The most effective way to prevent contracting STIs
What is abstinence?
400
They make proteins for the cell.
What is a ribosome?
400
In this bacteria, the LPS molecules are shed into tissues or into the circulation
What is Gram-negative bacteria?
500
Microbial components that contribute to the ability to cause disease in a susceptible host.
What are virulence factors?
500
These pathogens cause disease in healthy people.
What are true pathogens?
500
An STI caused by chlamydia or gonorrhea bacteria moving in to a woman's reproductive organs.
What is Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID)?
500
A small loop of DNA that is separate from the bacteria's DNA
What is plasmid?
500
This "flesh-eating" bacteria causes RBCs to disintegrate
What is Streptococcus A?