Across
- 2. chemical reactions that allow food to be converted into usable energy or stored in tissues
- 5. anything causing danger or a risk to health
- 9. caused by invasion of a pathogen, often causing harm to tissues
- 10. disease that can be spread from one generation to the next
- 13. unicellular eukaryotic organisms capable of movement; may cause infections (malaria, African sleeping sickness)
- 14. illness or sickness caused by genes, infection, toxicity, nutritional imbalance, etc.
- 17. science of studying disease-causing microorganisms (bacteria, viruses, fungi, etc.)
- 18. poisonous substance that may cause serious effects on the body
Down
- 1. organism that benefits from a host organism while the host is harmed
- 3. unicellular prokaryotic organisms found nearly everywhere on earth; capable of living in a variety of areas of conditions; many are beneficial while cause infections (may be treated with antibiotics)
- 4. measure of food energy
- 6. multicellular eukaryotic organisms that obtain nutrients by breaking down organic matter
- 7. nonliving pathogen that is capable of infecting and reproducing within living hosts; may spread rapidly throughout populations
- 8. any disease causing microbe
- 11. a rapidly spreading outbreak of disease affecting widespread regions across that world (ex: smallpox,TB, certain flu outbreaks)
- 12. genes of bacteria commonly know for causing strep throat
- 15. something capable of spreading disease affecting many large populations (ex: typhoid)
- 16. using sanitary habits to maintain health and prevent illness