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MicroLife 2
MicroLife page 2 vocabulary words
Question | Answer |
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protist | one-celled microbe, has a nuvleus |
virus | non-living particle that causes disease |
vaccination | injecting dead or weakened microbe into the body to help the body to learn how to fight it |
resistant | able to fight against |
bacteria | A type of single cell organism that has a ____________________, but does not have a ________________ |
immune system | defends the body against foreign substances from the outside |
red blood cell | transports oxygen and carbon dioxide, does NOT have a ______________ |
white blood cell | cells that fight foreign substances |
antibiotic | medicine that destroys microbes, or stops them from growing |
full course | the full prescribed amount of medicine |
germ theory of disease | the IDEA that microbes (“germs”) can cause infectious disease and are easily spread by people |
multi-cellular | an organism that is made up of many cells |