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Organisms and Disease

Organisms and Disease

Question 1 of 10

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What is meant by the term health?

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 2 of 10

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What is a Parasite

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 3 of 10

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How can Bacteria cause disease?

Select one or more of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 4 of 10

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How does Fungi cause disease?

Select one of the following:

  • 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.

Explanation

Question 5 of 10

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How do Viruses cause disease?

Select one or more of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 6 of 10

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How does a Protoctista cause disease?

Select one of the following:

  • Enter the Host cells and feed in the contents

  • Causes damage to the red blood cells in the blood

Explanation

Question 7 of 10

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What 4 things must a Pathogen be able to do to be able to cause disease?

Select one or more of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 8 of 10

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What is the name of the pathogen that causes Malaria?

Select one of the following:

  • Plasmodium

  • human immunodeficiancy virus

  • Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

  • M.Bovis

Explanation

Question 9 of 10

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How is Malaria spread

Select one of the following:

  • By a Vector

  • By droplet infection

  • by physical contact

  • by exchange of bodily fluids

Explanation

Question 10 of 10

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What is the Vector that spreads Malaria

Select one of the following:

  • Female Anopheles Mosquito

  • Humans

  • Any blood sucking insect

Explanation

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