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- 5. important for physical digestion, where food enters the body
- 6. a test that tests how much air goes in and out of the lungs
- 8. measures taken to stop a disease or health problem from occurring or worsening
- 9. a living organism that a virus, bacteria, or parasite living on it
- 10. proteins made by the immune system that fight invaders
- 15. special cells that turn into different types of cells that can make copies of itself
- 16. carry blood toward the heat
- 17. measurements of bodies health, can help detect health issues
- 18. breathing too fast and too deeply causing lightheadedness
- 19. the part of the DNA strand that is made up of sugar and phosphate
- 23. a method used to measure the amount of energy in food
- 24. an action taken to improve health or prevent illness
- 25. the study of how disease spreads, what causes it and how it is controlled
- 26. infectious agent that can only reproduce inside the cells of a living host
- 27. everyone has equal opportunities for health care
- 28. an outbreak of a disease that spreads across a large geographical area
- 29. a disease that spreads from animal to human is called…
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- 1. organism that carries and spreads disease
- 2. needed for function of all cells and organs, 2/3 of body mass
- 3. carries blood away from the heart
- 4. taking DNA out of cells so it can be studied
- 7. a process used to find the exact order of the bases in a DNA strand
- 11. a sudden increase in cases of a disease above what is expected
- 12. the number of times the heart beats in a minute
- 13. lump of chewed food that is swallowed
- 14. single-celled organisms that can be helpful but can also cause infectious disease
- 20. and disease
- 21. muscle that pushes food through the digestive system
- 22. technique used to change, remove or replace apart of the DNA genes