Types of Microorganisms
Type of pathogen that is not alive, made up of strands of DNA or RNA surrounded by a protein coat. Can only reproduce using a host cell.
What are viruses?
The first line of defense against pathogens.
What is barriers like skin, etc...?
Type of microbe that causes salmonella, tuberculosis and the plague.
What are bacteria?
Type of symbiotic relationship between a virus and host cell.
What is parasitic?
What is bacteria?
Name for dangerous microbes.
What are pathogens?
Type of pathogen that causes flu, colds, chicken pox.
What are viruses?
Best way to protect yourself from infectious diseases.
What is washing your hands (or getting vaccinated).
Type of microorganism that causes athletes foot and ringworm. Reproduces using spores.
What is fungus/fungi?
Type of blood cells that help protect against pathogens.
What are white blood cells?
Fungal microorganism that causes skin disease-painful, circular red rash
What is Ringworm?
What has had the greatest impact on preventing diseases in the 21st century?
What are vaccines?
The way bacteria reproduce.
What is binary fission?
The bodies ability to destroy pathogens before they can cause disease.
What is immunity?
Fungal microorganism that causes skin disease-itchy red feet
What is Athlete's Foot?
What is the first thing that scientists need to understand when trying to prevent a new epidemic disease?
What is how it spread?
Microorganism that causes malaria and sleeping sickness
What is Protozoa/protists?
The different between an antibiotic and a vaccine.
Antibiotics treat disease.
Vaccines prevent disease.
A living organism that carries and transmits a disease.
What is a vector?
Pathogens mutate.