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science vocab
infectious diseases
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| toxins | poisons that produce illness by disrupting bodily functions |
| pathogen | disease causing agents especially a living microorganism |
| vectors | animals that carry disease causing organisms from person to person |
| penicillin | first antibiotic discovered-still used today |
| antibiotics | compounds that kill bacteria without harming the cells of humans or animals |
| Alexander Fleming | Scottish bacteriologists that discovered penicillin in 1928 while working in a lab |
| virus | nonliving pathogen-uses the material in a host cell to make copies of itself |
| germ theory of disease | infectious diseases caused by microorganisms or germs |