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MicroLife vocabulary, pages 1-2 from vocab. table

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infectious   can be passed from one person to another  
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carrier   a person who is contagious but never develops symptoms of the disease or develops symptoms only after a long period of time  
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epidemiologist   scientists who trace the spread of a disease through a population  
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quarantine   to keep a sick person away from others in order to prevent the spreading of a disease  
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vector   an organism (not a person) that spreads disease-causing germs usually without getting sick itself  
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germ theory of disease   the idea that microbes (germs) can cause infectious disease and are easily spread by people  
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immune system   The system that defends the body against foreign substances from the outside  
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full course   The full prescribed amount of medicine  
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cell theory   the idea that cells are the building blocks that make up all living things  
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cell membrane   • Acts as a barrier to protect the cell • controls what enters and leaves the cell  
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Alexander Fleming   Discovered that penicillin destroys the cell wall of bacteria, but does not affect human blood cells.  
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