health and disease

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Across
  1. 2. measure of food energy
  2. 3. illness or sickness caused by genes, infection, toxicity, nutritional imbalance, etc.
  3. 5. organism that benefits from a host organism while the host is harmed
  4. 6. caused by invasion of a pathogen, often causing harm to tissues
  5. 9. any disease-causing microbe
  6. 10. nonliving pathogen that is capable of infecting and reproducing within living hosts; may spread rapidly throughout populations
  7. 13. using sanitary habits to maintain health and prevent illness
  8. 14. unicellular prokaryotic organisms found nearly everywhere on Earth; capable of living in a variety of areas or conditions. Many are beneficial while many cause infectious (may be treated with antibiotics)
  9. 15. unicellular eukaryotic organisms capable of movement; may cause infections (malaria, African sleeping sickness)
  10. 16. genus if bacteria commonly known for causing strep throat
  11. 17. poisonous substance that may cause serious effects on the body
Down
  1. 1. disease that can be spread from one generation to the next
  2. 4. a rapidly spreading outbreak of disease affecting many large populations (ex: typhoid)
  3. 7. multicellular eukaryotic organisms that obtain nutrients by breaking down organic matter
  4. 8. chemical reactions that allow food to be converted into usable energy or stored in tissues
  5. 9. a rapidly spreading outbreak of disease affecting widespread regions across the world (ex: smallpox, TB, certain flu outbreaks)
  6. 10. something capable of spreading disease without being infected itself (rats, mosquitoes, soil, parasites)
  7. 11. science of studying disease-causing microorganisms (bacteria, viruses, fungi, etc.)
  8. 12. anything causing danger or a risk to health