Health and disease

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