Assessment 2 - Diseases

Question 1

What is a disease?

Answer 1

Illness characterised by specific signs or symptoms.

Question 2

What is an infectious disease?

Answer 2

Any disease caused by a pathogen (germ)

Question 3

What is bacteria?

Answer 3

Microscopic living organisms that have 1 cell.

Question 4

What is the role of bacteria in the human gut?

Answer 4

Help break down food and turn it into nutrients.

Question 5

How does bacteria cause food poisoning?

Answer 5

Microbes can grow if people don’t cook food properly.

Question 6

What is the immune system?

Answer 6

A network of specific immune cells and proteins that protect the body against foreign invaders.

Question 7

What are the 3 lines of defense?

Answer 7

physical and chemical barriers, non-specific innate responses and specific adaptive responses.

Question 8

What is immunocompromised system?

Answer 8

Immune system’s defenses are low.

Question 9

How does covid affects people with immunocompromised system?

Answer 9

They are more likely to die.