Communicable Diseases

Question 1

What is a communicable disease?

Answer 1

A disease passed on from one organism to another

Question 2

What is a pathogen?

Answer 2

A microorganism that causes infectious diseases.

Question 3

What can bacteria produce if it reproduces and hasn’t been treated?

Answer 3

Poisons and toxins

Question 4

Pathogens can be in both…

Answer 4

Animals and plants

Question 5

What is a protist?

Answer 5

A pathogen

Question 6

What is a eukaryotic cell?

Answer 6

any cell or organism that possesses a clearly defined nucleus.

Question 7

What does a vaccination do?

Answer 7

Reduces the spread of disease

Question 8

What do white blood cells do to prevent infection?

Answer 8

They produce antibodies, anti-toxins and they engulf pathogens.

Question 9

What are the four pathogens?

Answer 9

Bacteria,
Protists,
Viral,
Fungal

Question 10

Name one example of a protist.

Answer 10

Malaria

Question 11

Name fungal diseases.

Answer 11

Rose black spot

Athletes foot

Question 12

Name 2 bacterial diseases.

Answer 12

Salmonella

Gonorrhoea

Question 13

Name 2 viral diseases.

Answer 13

HIV

Measles

Question 14

Antibiotics only kill…

Answer 14

Bacteria.

Question 15

Why is it difficult for antibiotics to kill viruses?

Answer 15

Because it would affect the host cells.

Question 16

Name 2 points about vaccines.

Answer 16

They contain dead versions of the pathogen.

And triggers an immune response.
(Cell memory remains so if pathogen re-enters it can be quickly destroyed).

Question 17

Painkillers kill…

Answer 17

Symptoms