Question | Answer |
Is used to group and name all living organisms | Classification System |
These consist of types A, B, AB, and O | Blood Types |
Creatures that are too small to be seen with the Human eye | Microbs |
Also known as Hanson's disease; affects the nervous system | Leprosy |
The idea that all living things are made of cells that can reproduce | Cell Theory |
Single-Celled organisms that have a nucleus (eukaryotic) | Protists |
Bacteria that are not killed by antibiotics and continue to reproduce | Resistant |
Means to isolate a person to prevent a disease from spreading | Quarantine |
A medicine used to treat diseases caused by bacteria | Antibiotic |
People who have a germ that cause a disease but do not show the disease | Carriers |
Is used to prevent people from getting viral illnesses | Vaccine |
Microbe that is not living, but can live inside another cell and reproduce | Viruses |
The body's defense against disease or any foreign substance | Immune System |
A breakdown in the structure or function in a living organism | Disease |
A scientist who traces the spread of a disease through a population | Epidemiologist |
New disease that have not been observed before | Emerging Diseases |
A bacterial disease that was carried by rats and spread by fleas | Bubonic Plague |
An organism (not a person) that spreads a disease without getting the disease | Vector |
Singled-Celled organisms that do not have a nucleus (prokaryotic) | Bacteria |
A disease that can be passed from one person to another | Infectuous |
Tiny structures inside cells that do certain jobs | Organells |
Said that all plants are made up of cells | Schleiden |
Said that cells arise from other living cells | Virchow |
Said that washing hands could prevent spread of childbed fever | Semmelweiss |
The idea that diseases were caused by microbes that could be spread | Germ Theory of Disease |
This separates the cell from its environment and controls what enters and leaves | Cell Membrane |
Was the first person to see cells in cork under a microscope and named them cells | Robert Hooke |
The jelly-like material that fills the inside of cells | Cytoplasm |
Discovered that heating could kill microbes in food; gave us the Germ Theory | Louis Pasteur |
Said that all animals are made of cells | Schwann |
Identified the microbe could cause Anthrax | Robert Koch |
These absorb light for photosynthesis in plant cells | Chloroplasts |
Organelles that produce energy in the cell | Mitochondria |
A nurse who suggested that cleanliness would prevent spread of disease | F. Nightingale |
The control center of the cell that contains the genetic material | Nucleus |
Used chemicals to clean surgical instruments to prevent disease | J. Lister |
Was the first person to observe and record microbes | Leeuwenhoek |
First person to wear rubber gloves in surgery to prevent disease spread | W. Halsted |