Infection and Response Class Flash cards

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Cards (9)

  • Why are viruses not classed as living pathogens (things) ?
    They need a host cell to survive
  • How do viruses make us poorly?
    They destroy the host cell
  • Name a plant virus and how it effects plants
    TMV- Tobacco Mosaic Virus
    It damages chlorophyll
  • Name 2 Virsuses
    HIV
    TMV
    Mumps
    measels
    rubella
  • Name 2 examples of bacteria
    Gonorrhoea
    Salmonella
  • What is a pathogen
    A microorganism that can cause a disease
  • What does communicable mean?
    Passed form organism to organism and is caused by a pathogen
  • how does bacteria spread?
    Contact/Touch
    Water
    Food
  • How does bacteria multiply?
    Binary fission.