Infection and response

Question 1

Type 1 diabetes

Answer 1

High fat diet and sugar

Lack of exercise

Question 2

What are communicable diseases caused by ?

Answer 2

Pathogens , bacteria and viruses

Question 3

What are non - communicable diseases caused by ?

Answer 3

Poor lifestyle , diet and stress

Question 4

What are pathogens ?

Answer 4

Microorganisms that can cause disease , normally in bacteria and viruses

Question 5

Bacteria ?

Answer 5

Some harmless as some live inside your body and reproduce

They produce toxins which is their waste from their chemical processes
The intoxins damage the cells in your tissues

Question 6

Viruses ?

Answer 6

Not living creatures and do not reproduce

They reproduce by infecting host cells and making the cell make new viruses

Question 7

How does a virus reproduce ?

Answer 7

Enters the cell

Viral DNA infected into cell

Viral components assembled

Bursts out of cell killing it

Question 8

How are Diseases spread ?

Answer 8

Animals

Poor sanitation

Food infected

Air droplets

Sexual contact

Question 9

Name three viral diseases

Answer 9

Measles

HIV

Salmonella

Question 10

Define protist

Answer 10

A single celled organism some of which maybe pathogens

Question 11

Malaria ?

Answer 11

Caused by a pathogenic protist called plasmodium
It is spread by a mosquito

symptoms = Fever , sweating , tiredness , red blood cells burst