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8th Grade Science Vocab about Diseases

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