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A substance that stimulates the body to produce chemicals that destroy viruses or bacteria a weakened form of the virus often

What is a vaccine?

The smallest of all micro-organisms

What are viruses?

The head of a virus which houses DNA Or RNA is called…..

What is a Capsid?

Area inside the cell membrane which acts As a protective barrier for bacterial cells

What is the Cell Wall

Place where a virus reproduces

What is inside the Host Cell?

Name of the process where bacteria reproduces

What is Assexual/Binary Fission

Bacteria is classified by this

What is shape?

A whiplike structure that helps a bacterial cell move

What is a flagellum?

Found in the cytoplasm of bacterial cells

What is genetic material? DNA

Anything that can make you sick

What is a pathogen?

Body Cells responsible for killing viruses

What is White Blood Cell

Bacterial diseases are often treated with this method

What are antibiotics?

Cancer and Diabetes are examples Of this type of disease

What is a Noninfectious chronic?

Body system responsible For getting rid of viruses

Immune system

An Illness that passes from one organism to another

What are infectious diseases?

A disease which lasts More than 3 months

What is Chronic

An organism which lives off another

What is a parasite?

Animal that transports a disease Without showing symptoms

What is a vector?

Type of disease prevention such as Washing hands

What is Primary?

Surgery and chemotherapy Are examples of this type of prevention

Teritary

Infectious diseases are spread by contact with contaminated people and objects, with animals and

What are environmental sources?

A virus which infects a specific particular organism

What is a bacteriophage?

A bacteria that survives in the presence of an antibiotic

What is an antibiotic resistant bacteria?

This component of bacteria Which allows it to attach to a surface

What are pilli?

Yeast and mold are examples of this

What are fungi?