Health and disease
Across
- 2. A nutrient that provides energy. They are found in bread, potatoes, rice and pasta.
- 4. The method by which a disease is passed from one person to another.
- 10. a serious health problem. It happens when people do not eat the right amounts of nutrients.
- 11. a microorganism containing chromosome that is loose in the cytoplasm in a long loop and plasmids
- 13. any organism that transmit the disease and do not become ill themselves e.g mosquitoes
- 18. diseases usually caused by lifestyle or genetic abnormalities) is not passed from one organism to another.
- 20. Vitamin C deficiency
- 21. Substance that controls the spread of bacteria in the body by killing them or stopping them reproducing.
- 23. iron deficiency
- 25. An infectious disease of the respiratory system caused by a virus.
- 26. softening and weakening of bones in children, usually because of an extreme and prolonged vitamin D deficiency
Down
- 1. suffering or death due to lack of food
- 3. A relationship between two sets of data, such that when one set changes you would expect the other set to change as well.
- 5. a disease spread by mosquitoes which carry the Plasmodium protist
- 6. An ultramicroscopic infectious non-cellular organism that can replicate inside the cells of living hosts, with negative consequences.
- 7. a microorganism that causes disease
- 8. a disease obese people are more likely to suffer from
- 9. A nutrient that provides materials to make new cells and to repair damaged tissues, such as muscles. Beans, eggs, fish, meat and milk are high in protein.
- 12. Vitamin A deficiency
- 14. disease usually caused by a microorganism – bacteria, virus or fungus) can be passed from one organism to another.
- 15. a state of complete mental, physical and social well-being
- 16. poisoning a bacterial disease caused by contaminated food
- 17. A disease caused by an airborne virus
- 19. They reproduce by forming fruiting bodies that release spores.
- 22. diet A diet that contains the correct amount of all food groups
- 24. The medical term for being very overweight, owing to the excessive accumulation of body fat.