Definitions
Scientific study of how characteristics are passed from parents to offspring
What are genetics?
Diabetes, colour blindness or cystic fibrosis
What are examples of non-communicable diseases?
All products containing a contaiminated ingredient must be removed from store shelves
What is a food recall?
Physical defence, inflammatory response, immune response
What are the body's 3 lines of defense?
Changes to DNA
What is a mutation?
Antigen injected into the body as a catalyst for the body to begin producing antibodies
What is a vaccine?
Includes bacteria, protists, fungi and viruses
What are pathogens?
Increase peoples ability to fight disease
What is the purpose of vaccinations?
Can occur when the skin is hit, such as when you fall and hit the ground
What is an inflammatory response?
Exposure to dangerous substances that change one's DNA
What is a mutagen?
Diseases that affect a large proportion of the population in many countries
What is a pandemic?
Temperature, food, and moisture
What are favourable conditions of bacteria?
Monitoring safety of drinking water, checking air pollution and taking measures to avoid disease outbreak
What are the responsibilities of the public health department?
You are born with a certain amount of immunity
What is inherited immunity?
Represents the passing on of particular traits throughout each generation
What is a pedigree?
Microscopic one-celled organisms, may be beneficial, harmful or neither
What is bacteria?
Athletes foot or ringworm
What are examples of fungi?
What are examples of pandemics?
AB Type, A Type, O Type and B Type
What are the different types of blood?
Comes in pairs, each cell contains 23
What are chromosomes?
Transferring genes from one organism or type of organism to another
What is genetic engineering?
Discovered that hot steam could kill pathogens, and this became known as sterilization.
Who is Robert Koch?
Fewer hunters, fewer young women and many traditions and elders lost
How did death affect aboriginal groups?
What is AB blood?
The process of taking a gene from one species and inserting it into the DNA of another
What is genetic engineering?