Disease
Across
- 2. organism that absorbs nutrients from the environment
- 5. When an infectious disease spreads worldwide.
- 8. A non-living sub-microscopic particle that must infect living plant or animal cells to reproduce.
- 9. treating a substance with heat to kill or slow the growth of pathogens
- 11. a condition in which bacteria can no longer be killed by a particular antibiotic
- 13. Plasmodium causes Malaria. It is transmitted by the anopheles mosquito through its saliva when it sucks blood.
- 14. When there are lots of cases of an infectious disease in one area of the world.
Down
- 1. a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease
- 3. A one-celled prokaryotic microorganism without a nucleus.
- 4. Special proteins which destroys/kills pathogens (made by white blood cells)
- 6. When a person has white blood cells that can rapidly make the correct antibodies to destroy/kill a pathogen.
- 7. microorganisms that cause disease. Bacteria, Viruses, Fungi and Protozoans
- 8. They prevent some types of diseases such as measles, mumps, Hepatitis B.
- 10. Drugs that destroy/kill bacteria
- 12. a type of pathogen that can cause diseases like athletes foot and ringworm.