TYPES OF PATHOGENS
This pathogen is spread in locker rooms and is common on the feet of athletes.
What is a FUNGUS?
This is your first line of defense, also the largest organ in the body.
What is skin?
Charles Darwin studied these animals in the Galapagos Islands, which had unique adaptations based on food sources.
What are finches or birds?
*Cough cough* I'm sick from working with kids all day, again!
What is host?
The fastest and trickiest way disease can spread, especially those viruses.
What is airborne?
This pathogen is the hardest to treat because it spreads so quickly and is not technically living.
What is a virus?
Gulp! Don't worry. Even though that pathogen got past your outsides, this is inside you and can burn it away, still counting as a first line of defense.
The word for a phenomenon when traits that help survival become more common over time.
What is evolution?
*Buzz buzz* This insect is more dangerous in countries that are hot all the time, where they live longer and carry around dangerous disease.
What is mosquito/vector?
It's customary to greet close relatives or friends with a hug and kiss on the cheek, but you might pass to avoid this form of transmission if someone is sick.
What is touch?
This pathogen takes and takes from the host but gives nothing good in return, making the host very sick until it can be removed.
What is a parasite?
Who's hungry? This is the word for what white blood cells do in your 2nd line of defense.
What is engulf pathogens?
This is how evolution is possible.
What are mutations or changes in DNA?
What are ticks/vector?
You're traveling to Africa! Make sure use that net around your bed to avoid malaria transmitted this way.
What is mosquito bite/bug or animal?
This pathogen can be killed using medication, as long as it hasn't cracked the code on how to dodge it yet.
What is bacteria?
Uhoh! Engulfing failed. This is what your white blood cells do next to destroy pathogens.
What is create and send antibodies?
The weak will perish. Darwin's term for only the strong lasting.
What is survival of the fittest?
Mrs. Denmead's relative at that wedding - she didn't know, she swears! Everyone else had symptoms and they traced it back to her...
What is a vector (of Covid)?
Oh no. There's a red ring around where you got bitten after hiking through the dense forrest. You should go get checked for this disease.
What is Lyme (from a tick)?
This is the medication that can kill bacteria.
What is antibiotic?
This is where your white blood cells are made (from one of your EdPuzzles).
What is bone marrow?
You got it from your momma! Thank your parents for passing these down to you for survival.
What are traits?
Tricky one: your sick friend didn't wash their hands and touched the doorknob. Then, you touched the doorknob and got sick. It transmitted through touch but is it a vector?
I've been sick for so long! I demand antibiotics but my doctor refuses! They tell me this is why.
What is antibiotic resistance or a non-bacterial infection?