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Science flash cards
Term | Definition |
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Infection | The presence of a disease caused by a pathogen, such as a bacterial or virus. |
Disease | A breakdown in the structure and function of a living organism. |
Epidemiologist | A scientist who traces the spread of a disease through a population. |
Bacteria | A single-called organism that does not have a nucleus or other membrane-bound organelles. |
Virus | A microbe that is Not made of cells and cannot grow or reproduce outside of a living cell. |
Protist | An organism made up of a single cell or many cells with a nucleus, and that is not an animal ,plant, or fungus. |
Full course | The complete prescription of an antibiotic from a doctor. |
Immune system | A system of specialized cells that coordinate and communicate in order to inactivate foreign material. |
Resistant | The characteristic of bacteria that have an increased chance to survive and reproduce when there is an antibiotic present in the environment. |
Parasite | A living organism that feeds off of another living organism. |
Antibiotic | "Medicine"/bacteria prescribed by a doctor that fights other bacteria. |
Vaccine | A shot with a dead/weakened virus so the immune system can develop a plan of attack. |
Vector | An organism that spreads disease-causing microbes from one host to another without getting sick itself. |