Organisms and Disease

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Quiz on Organisms and Disease, created by stacymaria on 30/05/2013.
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Question 1

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What is meant by the term health?
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  • is a state if mental, physical and social wellbeing and the absence of disease.
  • Being well fed with a balanced diet and not having a disease

Question 2

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What is a Parasite
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  • An Organisms that lives in or on it's host and causes harm to it's host by taking nutrition from it's host.
  • An organism that lives in or on it's host and causes disease

Question 3

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How can Bacteria cause disease?
Answer
  • They can reproduce rapidly
  • They damage our cells
  • They release waste products that are toxic to us.
  • They take our our genetic material
  • They don't cause disease

Question 4

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How does Fungi cause disease?
Answer
  • Fungus lives in the skin and sends out reproductive Hyphae that grow to the surface of the skin and release spores.
  • Fungus live in the body and release toxins that damage our cells.
  • Fungus send out reproductive Hyphae to the blood.

Question 5

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How do Viruses cause disease?
Answer
  • Invade Cells
  • Take our genetic machinery of the cell
  • Make the cell manufacture copies of the virus
  • Eventually the host cell bursts which releases the new viruses
  • Release toxins
  • Take over the brain

Question 6

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How does a Protoctista cause disease?
Answer
  • Enter the Host cells and feed in the contents
  • Causes damage to the red blood cells in the blood

Question 7

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What 4 things must a Pathogen be able to do to be able to cause disease?
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  • Travel from one host to another
  • Get into the host's tissues
  • reproduce
  • cause damage to the host's tissues.
  • release waste products that are toxins to us
  • damage the lining of blood vessels

Question 8

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What is the name of the pathogen that causes Malaria?
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  • Plasmodium
  • human immunodeficiancy virus
  • Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
  • M.Bovis

Question 9

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How is Malaria spread
Answer
  • By a Vector
  • By droplet infection
  • by physical contact
  • by exchange of bodily fluids

Question 10

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What is the Vector that spreads Malaria
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  • Female Anopheles Mosquito
  • Humans
  • Any blood sucking insect
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