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MicroLife 2
MicroLife page 2 vocabulary words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |