Monitoring and maintaining health
Across
- 2. An injection that contains dead or inactive amounts of a pathogen.
- 7. These are protein specific to the pathogen and destroy the antigens without harming the body
- 9. These kill insects, for example, pyrethrins which are made by chrysanthemums
- 11. Athletes foot is a ______ infection
- 12. Prevents water loss from the plant and prevents pathogens from entering the plant
- 13. This is the time in which you may be infected with the harmful microorganisms but may not feel unwell yet
- 15. These are in the vaccine and stimulate your white blood cells to produce antibodies
- 17. HIV stands for Human _______________ Virus
- 19. A word we use to describe when something is highly infectious
- 20. These make antibodies or antitoxins
- 21. They are drugs that destroy viruses
Down
- 1. These kill or neutralise all types of pathogen without damaging human tissue. Often used on external living surfaces
- 3. These types of diseases are easily spread between organisms
- 4. The region where bacterial growth is prevented around a disc of antibiotic
- 5. A fungal plant disease that infects plants, causing powdery spots on the leaves
- 6. They are drugs that kill bacteria without damaging cells
- 8. These types of diseases do not spread between organisms
- 10. A mosquito is an example of a ______, they carry disease.
- 14. Thes engulf and ingest the pathogen and then make enzymes to destroy the microoganism
- 16. This is what vaccines hope to achieve, to give people ________ from the disease
- 18. Are part of your blood that help it clot and form a scab