WorksheetsGCSE Immunity and Disease Recap
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 7mins
Select the correct term for this definition: A microorganism that causes a disease
Antibody
Antigen
Pathogen
Antitoxin
Select the correct term for this definition: A protein on the surface of a pathogen that causes an immune response by the body
Antibody
Antigen
Pathogen
Antitoxin
Select the correct term for this definition: A protein produced by white blood cells that can destroy pathogens
Antibody
Antigen
Pathogen
Antitoxin
Select the correct term for this definition: A drug that is used to treat bacterial infections
Antibody
Antigen
Antibiotic
Antitoxin
A dummy drug that is used during a drug trial that doesn't contain any active ingredient is called a (a)
Which of the following diseases is caused by a virus? (careful, it could be more than 1!)
AIDS
Influenza
Salmonella
Gonorrhea
Rose black spot
Which of the following diseases is caused by a bacteria? (careful, it could be more than 1!)
Rubella
Influenza
Salmonella
Malaria
Rose black spot
Which of the following diseases is caused by a protist? (careful, it could be more than 1!)
Rubella
Influenza
Salmonella
Malaria
Measles
The malaria pathogen spends some of its life cycle in humans and the rest of the time reproducing inside a mosquito. The mosquito transfers the pathogen from one human to another. The mosquito is therefore known as a what?
(a)
What do we call a drug trial that is conducted where neither the doctors nor patients know who is receiving the active drug?
Open trial
Single blind trial
Double blind trial
Triple blind trial
What are we looking for when testing a new drug?
Side effects
The efficacy
The dosage
The costs
Which scientist(s) is/are credited with the 'discovery' of the antibiotic penicillin?
Alexander Fleming
Ernest Rutherford
James Watson and Francis Crick
Marie and Pierre Curie
