Chapter 6 Vocabulary

A living thing too small to see without a microscope that can cause disease.

• cell

• microorganism

• plasma

• coins

Organisms that cause disease.

• Pathogens

• alveolis

• enzymes

• valves

A disease caused by a pathogen.

• Noninfectious Disease

• Complicated Disease

• Infectious Disease

• Immune Response

Which scientist discovered microorganisms?

• Joseph Lister

• Louis Pasteur

• Robert Koch

• Nelson Mandella

Which scientist showed that specific microorganisms each cause a specific disease?

• Robert Koch

• Joseph Lister

• Louis Pasteur

• Dwayne Johnson

Which scientist discovered that if you wash your hands and sterilize equipment and the surgical area less patients would die from infections?

• Joseph Lister

• Louis Pasteur

• Robert Koch

• Austin Powers

A poison that can harm an organism.

• Villi

• Vaccine

• Toxin

• Tissue

Fluid and white blood cells leak from blood vessels into tissues and destroy pathogens by breaking them down. (General Defense)

• Immune Response-3rd

• Inflammatory Response- 2nd

• Skin, breathing passages and stomach

• Blood Vessels

Cells of the immune system target each kind of pathogen specifically for that pathogen.

• Inflammatory Response- 2nd

• Skin, breathing passages, stomach

• Blood Vessels

• Immune Response- 3rd

Immune system recognizes either as a part of the body or coming from outside the body.

• Antibodies

• Antigen

• T cell

• B cell