B5 + B6

Question 1

Communicable diseases caused

Answer 1

are caused by pathogens like bacteria that can be passed from one person to another ( flu )

Question 2

Non communicable diseases

Answer 2

Non-communicable diseases cannot be transmitted from one person to another but still cause ill health. ( heart disease )

Question 3

Pathogens

Answer 3

Pathogens are disease causing micro-organisms, like virus, bacteria fungi and protogtus.

Question 4

How can diseases be prevented

Answer 4

They can be prevented by isolation, or washing for skin to skin viruses, to cover your mouth when you cough/ sneezes for airborne viruses, you can prevent fluid spread viruses by not having sex, and taking precautions when doing it

Question 5

Dr Wakefield

Answer 5

study involve 12 children saying that if you take the mmr vaccine separately you lower the risk of autism, this was proven wrong and he was put under fire, and is under being investigated for alleged misconduct.

Question 6

Prokaryotic

Answer 6

Prokaryotic- has no nucleus, no organelles, simple and smaller, DNA in circle, carries genetic material

Question 7

Viruses size

Answer 7

Smaller than a bacteria cell 20 - 400 nanometers

Question 8

Size of bacteria

Answer 8

5.0 micrometers

Question 9

Correlation

Answer 9

is the relationship between two or more things

Question 10

Causation

Answer 10

Needs an effect to show one factor can influence another

Question 11

Autoclave

Answer 11

A special oven used to sterilise equipment

Question 12

Inoculate

Answer 12

A method of introducing microorganisms to a culture medium

Question 13

Agar gel

Answer 13

A meduim that contains nutrients needed by microorganisms

Question 14

Culture medium

Answer 14

A liquid or gel containing nutrients

Question 15

Sterile

Answer 15

When a piece of equipment is fully rid of bacteria

Question 16

Contaminated

Answer 16

When their has been a growth of bacteria on a piece of equipment

Question 17

Aseptic

Answer 17

A technique to get rid of bacteria

Question 18

Immunisation

Answer 18

Getting given a vaccine which is made of dead and inactive form of a disease causing microorganism

Question 19

Vaccine purpose

Answer 19

It stimulates the body’s natural immune system response to the bad pathogens it stimulates the white blood cells to produce the antibodies to fight it

Question 20

Herd immunity

Answer 20

If a large proportion of the population have become immune to a disease, the pathogen is reduced and maybe disappear due to it being unable to spread

Question 21

Antiseptics

Answer 21

Kill microorganisms in the environment

Question 22

Antibiotics

Answer 22

Kill bacteria ( not viruses) in the body

Question 23

Antibodies

Answer 23

Are made by white blood cells to destroy pathogens ( both bacteria and viruses )

Question 24

Painkillers

Answer 24

Treat the symptoms of a disease but do not kill the pathogens that cause it

Question 25

Drugs from plants

Answer 25

Some drugs used today are used today that are based on traditional medicines extracted from plants

Question 26

Who discovered Penicillin

Answer 26

Alexander flemming in 1928

Question 27

What is a good medicine

Answer 27

Effective - prevent or cure a disease
Safe - not be too toxic or have bad side affects
Stable - must be above to use medicine under normal conditions
Successful - successfully taken into and removed from your body.

Question 28

Placebo

Answer 28

Does not contain any drugs and given to make the test fair

Question 29

Monoclonal antibodies

Answer 29

Form of medical treatment that relies on the immune system. Targets particular cells or chemicals in the body

Question 30

Viral diseases

Answer 30

Measles
HIV
TMV(Tobacco mosaic virus)

Question 31

Bacterial diseases

Answer 31

Salmonella

Gonorrhoea

Question 32

Fungal diseases

Answer 32

Rose black spots

Question 33

Protist diseases

Answer 33

The malarial protist