Health & Disease

6. Anything causing danger or a risk to health.
10. Illness or sickness caused by genes, infection, toxicity, nutritional imbalance, etc.
11. Any disease-causing microbe.
12. Caused by invasion of a pathogen, often causing harm to tissues.
13. Nonliving pathogen that is capable of infecting and reproducing within living hosts.
14. Disease that can be spread from one generation to the next.
16. Chemical reactions that allow food to be converted into usable energy or stored in tissues.
18. Poisonous substance that may cause serious effects on the body.

1. Measure of food energy.
2. Organism that benefits from a host organism while the host is harmed.
3. A rapidly spreading outbreak of disease affecting widespread regions across the world.
4. Unicellular prokaryotic organisms found nearly everywhere on Earth.
5. Using sanitary habits to maintain health and prevent illness.
7. Something capable of spreading disease without being infected itself .
8. Multicellular eukaryotic organisms that obtain nutrients by breaking down organic matter.
9. A rapidly spreading outbreak of disease affecting many large populations.
11. Unicellular eukaryotic organisms capable of movement.
15. Genus of bacteria commonly known for causing strep throat.
17. Science of studying disease-causing microorganisms.