5. Health, disease and development of medicines.

Question 1

Define health

Answer 1

A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being

Question 2

What is a communicable disease?

Answer 2

Any disease that can be spread directly from one person to another

Question 3

What is a noncommunicable disease?

Answer 3

When a disease cannot be spread from an animal to animal or person to person.

Question 4

What is a pathogen

Answer 4

A disease causing organism

Question 5

Give four types of pathogens

Answer 5

Viruses, bacteria, fungi and protests

Question 6

What does cholera cause?

Answer 6

Diarrhoea

Question 7

What type of pathogen causes cholera?

Answer 7

Bacteria

Question 8

What does tuberculosis cause?

Answer 8

Lung damage

Question 9

What type of pathogen causes tuberculosis?

Answer 9

Bacteria

Question 10

What does chalara ash dieback cause?

Answer 10

Leaf loss and bark lesions

Question 11

What type of pathogen causes trouble chalara ash die back?

Answer 11

Fungi

Question 12

What does malaria cause?

Answer 12

Damage to blood and liver

Question 13

What type of pathogen causes malaria?

Answer 13

Protists

Question 14

What does HIV do?

Answer 14

Destroys white blood cells, leading to the onset of AIDS

Question 15

What type of pathogen causes HIV?

Answer 15

Virus

Question 16

How is cholera spread?

Answer 16

Water

Question 17

How is tuberculosis spread

Answer 17

Air born

Question 18

How is chalara ash dieback spread

Answer 18

Airborn

Question 19

How is malaria spread?

Answer 19

Animal vectors

Question 20

What does STD stand for?

Answer 20

Sexually transmitted infections

Question 21

Give two examples of STDs

Answer 21

Chlamydia and HIV

Question 22

What type of pathogen causes chlamydia?

Answer 22

Bacteria

Question 23

Give Three examples of physical barriers of the human body that provides protection from pathogens

Answer 23

Mucus, cilia and skin

Question 24

Give two examples of the chemical defence of the human body the provided protection from pathogens?

Answer 24

Lysozymes and hydrochloride acid

Question 25

What do you antigens trigger?

Answer 25

An immune response with causes the production of antibodies also production of memory lymphocytes

Question 27

What is an antibody?

Answer 27

A protection produced by lymphocytes and attaches to a specific pathogen to help to destroy or neutralise it

Question 28

What is a memory lymphocytes?

Answer 28

Lymphocyte that remains in the blood for a long time after infection or vaccination

Question 29

What is a lymphocyte?

Answer 29

A type of white blood cell that produces antibodies

Question 30

What type of infection can antibodies be used to treat?

Answer 30

Bacterial infections

Question 31

Skate before stages of developing new medicines

Answer 31

Discovery, development, pre-clinical trial and clinical testing

Question 32

Which lifestyle factor has an effect on obesity and malnutrition?

Answer 32

Exercise and diet

Question 33

What is the BMI equation?

Answer 33

Weight KG divided by height metres ^2

Question 34

Which lifestyle factor has an affect on the liver?

Answer 34

Alcohol

Question 35

Which lifestyle factor has an affect on the cardiovascular disease

Answer 35

Smoking

Question 36

List three different treatments for cardiovascular disease

Answer 36

Lifelong medication, surgical procedures, lifestyle changes