Biology Disease

Something capable of spreading disease without being infected itself (rats, mosquitoes, soil parasites)

• Vector

• Hazard

• Virus

• Infection

Illness or sickness caused by genes, infection, toxicity, nutritional imbalance, etc.

• Disease

• Hygiene

• Epidemic

• Protozoa

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NGSS.MS-LS3-1

Science of studying disease-causing microorganisms (bacteria, viruses, Fungi, etc)

• Streptococcus

• Infection

• Protozoa

• Microbiology

Disease that can be spread from one generation to the next

• Microbiology

• Infection

• Streptococcus

• Infectious Disease

Non-living proteins that cause infection

• viruses

• prions

• protists

• helminths

What is a reservoir host?

• Person who picks up the micro-organism

• Infected host the carrie non-infectious microbes and does not provide a necessary environment for pathogens to grow.

• infected host the carries infectious microbes and provides necessary environment for pathogens to grow.

• New host that involves non-intact skin, mucous membranes, and blood and body fluids.

Unicellular prokaryotic organisms found nearly everywhere on Earth; capable of living in a variety of areas of conditions. Many are beneficial while many cause infectious (may be treated with antibiotics)

• Virus

• Bacteria

• Fungi

• Protozoa

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Caused by invasion of a pathogen, often causing harm to tissues

• Infection

• Infectious Disease

• Hygiene

• Epidemic

Nonliving pathogen that is capable of infecting and reproducing within living hosts: may spread rapidly throughout populations.

• Virus

• Vector

• Fungi

• Disease

A rapidly spreading outbreak of disease affecting widespread regions across the world ( ex: smallpox, TB, certain flu outbreaks)

• Epidemic

• Pandemic

• Protozoa

• Bacteria