12.1/12.2 Quiz Modified

Organisms that cause disease are called __________________.

• hosts

• pathogens

A disease that can be passed from one person to another through pathogens.

• Communicable disease
• Noncommunicable disease

What sort of pathogen causes influenza (flu)?

• A virus

• A protist

The method in which a disease is contracted or the way a person becomes infected.

• symptom

• transmission

The physical or psychological changes caused by a disease.

• symptom

• transmission

An organism that lives on or in it's host to survive.

• parasite

• virus

If you want to stay well, which of these should you do?

• exercise regularly

• eat a balanced diet

• get enough sleep

• all of these

the body's response to an infection by showing redness, swelling, & pain

• immunization

• inflammation

Antibiotics can be used to treat what type of pathogens?

• Prions

• Bacteria

common cold

• virus

• protozoa