Chapter 11 - Crossword

3. A microbe whose relationship with its host parasitic and results in infection and disease.
4. class of bacterial exotoxin that disrupts the cell membrane of RBC's
5. illnesses caused by microscopic pathogens—including bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites—that invade and multiply inside the human body.
10. aka LPS.
11. microscopic organisms—commonly known as germs—that cause disease in humans, animals, and plants.
13. the quantitative degree of damage or severity of disease that a pathogen causes in a host.
14. refers to the collective community of microorganisms—including bacteria, archaea, viruses, fungi, and protozoa—along with their genetic material and surrounding environmental habitat in a specific niche (such as the human gut, skin, soil).

1. refers to the ecological community of live microorganisms—including bacteria, archaea, fungi, protists, and viruses—that inhabit a specific environment, such as the human body, plants, soil, or oceans..
2. digests the protective coating on mucous membranes.
3. an organisms potential to cause disease.
6. the invasion and multiplication of pathogenic microorganisms—such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites, or prions—within the bodily tissues of a host, triggering tissue reactions and immune responses.
7. enzymes secreted by microbes that break down and inflict damage on tissues.
8. causes clotting of blood or plasma.
9. any living organism, human, animal, plant, or nonliving environment (like soil or water) where an infectious pathogen naturally lives, grows, multiplies, and depends on for survival.
12. the invasion and multiplication of pathogenic microorganisms—such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites, or prions—within the bodily tissues of a host, triggering tissue reactions and immune responses.