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Lazoff-Diseases
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| noninfectious disease | diseases that are not caused by a pathogen or microorganisms |
| allergy | a disorder in which the immune system is overly sensitive to a foreign substance |
| histamine | a chemical that is responsible for the symptoms of an allergy |
| asthma | a disorder in which the respiratory passages narrow |
| insulin | a chemical that enables body cells to take in glucoes and change it into energy |
| diabetes | when a body's pancreas fails to produce enough insulin, or your body's cells cannot use it properly |
| cancer | a disease in which cells multiply uncontrollably, destroying healthy tissue in the process |
| carcinogen | a substance or factor in the environment that can cause cancer |
| infectious disease | a disease that can pass from one organism to another |
| virus | tiny particles that can cause diseases, but cannot reproduce on their own and instead turn normal cells into virus reproducing factories |
| bacteria | one celled microorganisms that can cause disease |
| fungi | cause the disease of athlete's foot |
| protist | disease that causes malaria |
| fever | slows microorganisms and speeds up white blood cells |
| vaccine | teaches the body to defend itself against viruses, by introducing the body to the virus through dead or weakend viruses |
| immunity | the ability for an organism to fight off a disease |
| virus classification | classified by their shape, type of disease, life cycle, and genetic material they contain |
| bacteria classification | classified by the way they get their food |
| producers | make their own food |
| consumers | get they food by eating other organisms |
| antibiotics | medicines used to kill bacteria |
| antivirals | medicine used to stop viruses from repoducing |
| germ theory | states that microorganisms cause some diseases |
| pasteurization | the process of using heat to kill microorganisms in liquids |
| barriers | prevent pathogens from entering the body and include skin, breathing passages, mouth, and stomach trap |
| inflammatory response | a fever begins, and certain types of white blood cells enter the blood stream to fight off pathogens |
| immune response | react to each kind of pathogen with a defense targeted specifically at that pathogen |
| antibody | a chemical produced by the immune system that helps destroy the invading pathogen |
| antigen | a marker molecule that the immune system uses to recognize a pathogen |
| phagocyte | a white blood cell that engulgs and destroys pathogens |
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