Diseases

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

What is one of the ways that antibiotics work? 

• They can stop bacteria from reproducing
• They can stop viruses from reproducing
• They stop toxins from poisoning the tissues of hosts
• They engulf the pathogens

What sort 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

What is one MAJOR organ of the Immune System?

• Spinal Cord
• Brain
• Skin
• Heart

Strep throat is caused by 

• bacteria
• virus

The flu is caused by

• bacteria
• virus

Bacteria can only be spread through coughing

• False
• True

What is athlete's foot?

• Virus
• Bacteria
• Fungi
• Protist

What is ring worm?

• Virus
• Bacteria
• Fungi
• Parasite