MC1: What Is The Relationship Between Diseases And Medicine

Question 1

What is a drug?

Answer 1

A chemical used in order to treat or prevent an illness or disease.

Question 2

Types of microbes?

Answer 2

Baceteria, viruses, protozoans and fungi

Question 3

Why aren’t viruses considered as living?

Answer 3

They can’t reproduce

Question 4

How do you consider something as living?

Answer 4

MR NC GREWW: movement, reproduction, nutricion, cells, growth, reponding to the world, exchange of gases, waste, water.

Question 5

Example of useful microbes?

Answer 5

Good bacteria and fungi in yeast

Question 6

Example of bad microbes?

Answer 6

Bacteria which cause diseases

Question 7

Define disease

Answer 7

Any condition that affects the nornal functioning of an organism

Question 8

What do diseases cause?

Answer 8

Symptoms that affect the normal functioning of the body

Question 9

How do diseases spread?

Answer 9

Through the direct transfer of bacteria, viruses or germs

Question 10

What are infectious diseases?

Answer 10

Diseases that spread from one organism to another

Question 11

Example of infectious diseases?

Answer 11

Chicken pox, HPV

Question 12

What is the process of infectious diseases?

Answer 12

The host is affected by the pathogen

Question 13

How can infectious diseases be prevented?

Answer 13

Good hygiene, vaccination, isolation, antibiotics

Question 14

How can bacteria cause diseases

Answer 14

Producing toxins that are poisonous to host cells and stopping the host cell from functioning properly

Question 15

What do bacteria require to grow and reproduce?

Answer 15

Nutrients, water, suitable temperature and pH, oxygen

Question 16

How do bacteria spread?

Answer 16

Close contact, vectors, objects with remaining bacteria, contaminated food and water

Question 17

How do pathogens spread?

Answer 17

Skin contact, airborne particles, touching a surface touched by an infected person

Question 18

Modes of disease transmission?

Answer 18

Inhalation, ingestion, direct contact

Question 19

Rank the severity of epidemic, pandemic, outbreak

Answer 19

Outbreak, epidemic, pandemic

Question 20

What are antibiotics?

Answer 20

They destroy micro organisms inside the body

Question 21

What are disinfectants?

Answer 21

Chemical substance that destroys micro organisms found on inanimate objects

Question 22

What are antiseptics

Answer 22

A chemical substance used to stop or slow the growth of micro organisms on the external surfaces of the body

Question 23

4 stages of natural selection?

Answer 23

Variation, differential survival, genetic inheritance, change of population