Disease and Microbes

5. disease causing organism
6. virus responsible for AIDS
8. transmission involving contact between two people
9. an animal that transmits diseases between people (e.g. fleas in the bubonic plague)
10. single celled organism with a nucleus, neither plant nor animal (e.g. Plasmodium the organism causing malaria)
11. how many people die from a disease
12. infectious organism or non-living pathogen that causes a contagious disease
13. disease that can be passed from person to person
15. disease caused by infectious proteins
18. group of organisms that have a cell wall and nucleus, but can't photosynthesise (cause ringworm)
20. disease caused by the environment and choices
21. used by bacteria for movement
22. number of new cases of a disease

1. disease that can be passed down from parents
2. single celled organism with no nucleus
3. disease caused by mutations to the DNA, resulting in tumours
4. any disfunction of the body
7. virus responsible for the most recent pandemic
10. how common a disease is
14. disease that is not transmissible
16. a group of symptoms caused by opportunistic infections as a result of a compromised immune system caused by HIV
17. a non-living pathogen that can only reproduce in a host
19. where DNA is stored in animals, plants and fungi- but not in bacteria