How are bacteria different from viruses?

Which of the following can be used to help prevent and/or treat illness?

Which of the statements below regarding vaccines is true?

What is the function (job) of the immune system?

What are parasites?

How do the careers of a physician and epidemiologist differ?

True or False: the human immune system helps protect against microscopic organisms and foreign substances that enter from outside the body and against some cancer cells that arise from within.

Cells carry out life functions. These functions are carried out in a similar way in all living organisms, including animals, fungi, plants, bacteria, and protists. Life functions include obtaining and using _______________________.

Cells with NO nucleus are _____________ cells

Cells with a nucleus are _____________ cells

Organisms made up of just ONE cell are _____________

Organisms made up of MANY cells are _____________

Lyme disease is caused by bacteria. It can be treated with ____________

True or False: Food poisoning can be prevented by cooking meat thoroughly and washing surfaces that have been in contact with raw meat.

Why is it important to take antibiotics exactly as your doctor prescribes them?

What is a pathogen?

True or False: Bacteria can spread by animal vectors (an organism like a mosquito or a tick that spreads pathogens from host to host).

True or False: All bacteria are harmful.

True of False: A viral infection can be treated with antibiotics. (viral = virus)

Which of the following statements below is true?

Which of the following statements about viruses is true?

Protozoa (animal-like protists) are _____________

Malaria is ____________________

The human ________________ system protects against microscopic organisms and foreign substances that enter from outside the body and against some cancer cells that arise from within.

Vaccines contain pathogens that are __________________

Number 1 on the diagram represents a(n) ____________ (good: produced by the immune system)

Number 2 on the diagram represents a(n) ____________ (bad: located on the pathogen)

Number 3 on the diagram represents a(n) ____________ (bad: anything that causes disease, like a harmful bacteria cell or a virus)

Cancer is a disease that ________________

True or False: Some new cancer treatments use the body's own immune system to help fight against cancer cells that arise from within the body.

Mutations are random errors in __________. Due to the mutations, abnormal cells divide uncontrollably. This often leads to the development of a tumor.

_____________ are living, prokaryotic, unicellular, reproduces asexually, can be harmful (causes disease like Tuberculosis and food poisoning) or helpful (digests food in our gut, yogurt production, decomposition), can be killed using antibiotics, examples include: Staphylococcus aureus, E. coli, Salmonella, Streptococcus

_____________ are living, eukaryotic, multiceulluar, reproduce sexually and asexually; their cells contain chloroplasts and cell walls

_____________ are living, eukaryotic, unicellular, can cause disease like malaria and sleeping sickness, examples include: Paramecium, Euglena, volvox

_____________ are living, eukaryotic, some are unicellular and some are multicellular, can cause diseases like athlete's foot, ringworm, mold allergies; examples include some yeast, mold, mushrooms

_____________ are non-living, contain genetic material of either DNA or RNA, can cause diseases like the flu, the common cold, Zika, Ebola (smaller than bacteria; can infect bacteria cells as shown in image above)

_____________ are living, eukaryotic, multicellular, reproduce sexually, can act as vectors that can transmit disease

Non-Resistant "Normal" Bacteria are represented by what image?

Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (with a genetic mutation) are represented by what image?

Bacteria that die due to antibiotics are represented by what image?

Which of the following statements is true regarding the graph below.