Diseases

Question 1

What are microorganisms?

Answer 1

Group of tiny organisms

Question 2

What do Microorganisms include?

Answer 2

Bacteria, Viruses, Protists and Fungi

Question 3

What are bad microorganisms called?

Answer 3

Pathogens

Question 4

What is a pathogen?

Answer 4

A microorganism that can cause disease

Question 5

What type of disease do pathogens cause?

Answer 5

Communicable diseasesW

Question 6

What is a communicable disease?

Answer 6

A disease that can spread from person to person

Question 7

Give two ways pathogens spread and explain how.

Answer 7

Any two from:
1. Through the air, when we cough, tiny droplets of the pathogen is expelled from our body.
2. Contaminated food and water, if water was contaminated and you drank it you would get the disease.
3. Direct contact, touching the contaminated surface

Question 8

How can we stop disease spreading?

Answer 8

We can be hygienic by washing our hands and cleaning cookery utensils. Killing the disease vector, vaccination and quarntine

Question 9

What is a disease vector?

Answer 9

Something that caries the disease, for example Mosquitoes transporting Malaria

Question 10

What is the best way to kill vectors?

Answer 10

To vaccinate everyone

Question 11

Are viruses living creatures?

Answer 11

No

Question 12

Are viruses cells?

Answer 12

No

Question 13

How many times smaller than acell is a virus?

Answer 13

10,000 times smaller

Question 14

How do viruses reproduce?

Answer 14

They use the cell’s machinery to make copies of themselves.

Question 15

What are the 2 ways a virus can reproduce?

Answer 15

The Lytic Pathway and the Lysogenic pathway