Across
- 2. Anything causing danger or risk to health.
- 4. A rapidly spreading outbreak of disease affecting a many large populations (ex: typhoid)
- 6. Any disease causing microbe.
- 9. Measure of food energy.
- 11. Disease that can be spread from one generation to the next.
- 14. Using sanitary habits to maintain health and prevent illness.
- 16. Something capable of spreading disease without being infected itself.(rats, mosquitos, soil, parasites)
- 17. unicellular eukaryotic organisms capable of movement;may cause infectious (malaria, african sleeping sickness)
- 18. Unicellular prokaryotic organism found nearly everywhere on earth; capable of living in a variety of areas or conditions. Many are beneficial while many cause infections (may be treated with antibiotics)
Down
- 1. organisms that benefit from the host organism while the other is harmed
- 3. Science of studying disease causing microorganisms (bacteria, fungi, viruses, etc.)
- 5. Illness or sickness caused by genes, infection toxicity, nutritional imbalance, etc.
- 6. A rapidly spreading outbreak of disease affecting widespread regions across the world (ex: small pox, TB, certain flu outbreaks)
- 7. Multicellular eukaryotic organisms that obtain nutrients by breaking down organic matter.
- 8. Caused by invasion of pathogen, often causing harm to tissues.
- 10. Non living pathogen that is capable or infecting and reproducing within living hosts; may spread rapidly throughout populations.
- 12. Poisonous toxin that may cause serious effects to the body.
- 13. Genus of bacteria commonly know for causing strep throat.
- 15. Chemical reactions that allow food to be converted into usable energy or stored in tissues.