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Disease Vocab
8th Grade Science Vocab about Diseases
Question | Answer |
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bacteria | single-celled organisms the lack a nucleus; prokaryotes |
infectious disease | a disease caused by the presence of a living thing in a body |
toxin | a poison produced by bacterial pathogens that damage cells |
antibiotic | a chemical that can kill bacteria without harming a person's cells |
antibiotic resistance | the ability of bacteria to with-stand the effects of an antibiotic |
vaccine | a substance introduced into the body to stimulate the production of chemicals that destroy specific viruses, bacteria, or other disease-causing organisms |
protist | a eukaryotic organism that cannot be classified as an animal, plant, or fungus |
protozoan | an animal-like protist |
algae | plantlike protists |
fungus | a eukaryotic organism that has cell walls, use spore to reproduce, and is a heterotroph that feeds by absorbing its food |
parasite | an organism that lives inside or on another organism and takes food from the organism in or which it lives |