Public Health Bacteria Review

Disease causing agents that enter your system

• Pathogen

• Bug

• Toxin

Danger of an infection depends on what? Select all correct answers

• Virulence

• Transmission

• Immune Response

• Parasite

Measure of how sick you get when infected by a pathogen.

• Virulence

• Transmission

• Immune Response

• Parasite

Measure of how easily a pathogen can spread between organisms

• Virulence

• Transmission

• Immune Response

• Parasite

Measure of how easily a pathogen can spread between organisms

• Virulence

• Transmission

• Immune Response

• Parasite

Answer explanation

Look up how different diseases spread in the notes

The body combats pathogens in a variety of ways…

Non-Specific Responses

Skin, Mucus, Chemicals, some White Blood Cells

Specific Responses 

Antibodies, other White Blood Cells

• Virulence

• Transmission

• Immune Response

• Parasite

Answer explanation

Look up how different diseases spread in the notes

Organisms who have cells with no organelles

Includes bacteria

DNA stored in circular chromosomes

• Prokaryote

• Eukaryote

Organisms who have cells with organelles

Includes plants, protists, animals, and fungi

• Prokaryote

• Eukaryote

When a bacterial cell splits into two identical copies

• Binary Fission

• Bacterial Split

• Copy and Paste

• Binary Divide

Disadvantages to Asexual Reproduction

• Fast

• Exponential

• No Genetic Diversity

• Vulnerable to change