Pathogens Review

What is the job of the immune system?

• To protect your body from drugs and medicine
• To protect your body from air and water
• To protect your body from pathogens
• To protect your body from itself

Which type of pathogen causes influenza (flu)?

• A bacterium
• A virus
• A fungus
• A protist

Disease-causing microorganism, such as a bacterium or fungus.

• antigen
• prion
• pathogen
• allergen

Pathogens known as ____ must get inside cells to replicate.

• viruses

• bacteria

• fungi

• protist

What is athlete's foot?

• Virus
• Bacteria
• Fungi
• Protist

A disease that can pass from one organism to another is a(n)

• pathogen.

• infectious disease.

• toxin.

• noninfectious disease

What type of pathogen is responsible for causing malaria?

• bacteria

• fungi

• protists

• viruses

Superbugs are deadly. But what are they?

• Bugs that take after superman
• Bacteria that have developed resistance to antibiotics by mutation
• A certain illness that causes severe headaches and possibly death to its victims
• A virus that has developed resistance to antibiotics by mutation

A type of medicine used to treat (cure) bacterial infections.

• ibuprofen
• vaccines
• antibiotics
• pills

An organism that does not cause disease itself but which spreads infection by transmitting pathogens from one host to another.

• bacteria

• virus

• vector

• pathogen