Types of disease

Question 1

How can bacteria make us feel ill?

Answer 1

Producing toxins that damage your cells and tissues

Question 2

How does fungi cause disease ?

Answer 2

Hyphae grow and penetrate human skin or the surface of plants

Question 3

How do pathogens spread between people?

Answer 3

• water
• air
• direct contact

Question 4

How are mosquitos involved in he spread of malaria ?

Answer 4

It carries the disease

Question 5

What type of pathogen causes salmonella food poisoning?

Answer 5

Bacteria

Question 6

How can the speeead of gonorrhoea be prevented ?

Answer 6

Wearing a condom

Question 7

What are pathogens?

Answer 7

Microorganisms that enter the body and cause disease

Question 8

What is meant by a communicable disease?

Answer 8

A disease that can easily spread

Question 9

List all the viral diseases

Answer 9

Measles
HIV
tobacco mosaic virus

Question 10

What symptoms of measles is shown on the skin ?

Answer 10

A red skin rash

Question 11

What effect does rose black spot have on a plant ?

Answer 11

It causes purple or black spots to develop on leaves

Turn yellow and drop off

Question 12

How is gonorrhoea transmitted?

Answer 12

Sexual contact

Question 13

How can vaccinations help limit the spread of disease?

Answer 13

Vaccinations stop people from developing the disease so that they cannot pass it on to someone else

Question 14

Describe initial symptoms of HIV infection

Answer 14

Flu like

Question 15

Give the symptoms of gonorrhoea

Answer 15

Pain when urinating

Green or yellow discharge

Question 16

Give the symptoms of salmonella

Answer 16

• fever
• stomach cramps
• vomiting
• diarrhoea

Question 17

What is meant by the term pathogen?

Answer 17

A microorganism that causes disease

Question 18

Outline how HIV can be spread ?

Answer 18

By sexual contact

Exchanging bodily fluids

Question 19

Why is it important chefs wash their hands before cooking ?

Answer 19

To prevent the contamination of food by disease cause pathogens that may be on the chefs hands

Question 20

Why is hand washing not useful in limiting the spread of malaria?

Answer 20

Malaria is spread by vectors

Not through contaminated foods or surfaces

Question 21

Explain why efforts to limit the spread of malaria free focus on the mosquito

Answer 21

Mosquitos are the vectors of malaria, so destroying them will help the spreading of malaria

Question 22

How do viruses make u feel I’ll?

Answer 22

Replicate themselves inside your cells

The cells burst

The cell damage make u feel I’ll

Question 23

What are protists?

Answer 23

Singled-called eukaryotes

Question 24

What is a vector?

Answer 24

Insects that carry the protist

Question 25

How do measles spread ?

Answer 25

Droplets of an infected persons sneeze or cough

Question 26

What are the symptoms of measles ?

Answer 26

Red skin rash and a fever

Question 27

How can HIV be controlled?

Answer 27

Antiretroviral drugs

These stop the virus replicating them sleves

Question 28

What does the discolouration of leaves mean in TMV?

Answer 28

The plant cant photosynthesis as well and the virus affects the growth

Question 29

How does rose black spot spread?

Answer 29

Water or wind

Question 30

What type of disease is rose black spot?

Answer 30

Fungal

Question 31

Give an explains of a bacteria causing disease?

Answer 31

Salmonella and gonorrhea

Question 32

What causes malaria?

Answer 32

Protist

Question 33

What is the life cycle of malaria?

Answer 33

The vectors picks up the disease when they feed on an infected animal

Every time it feeds on another animal it infects it with malaria

Question 34

What are the symptoms of malaria

Answer 34

Repeating episodes of fever

Question 35

How can we prevent or reduce the spread of disease?

Answer 35

• isolation infected individuals
• be hygienic
• vaccination
• destroying vectors