Diseases and Biotechnology Vocabulary- Part 2 8th Grade Science 2013

Setting Up Your Paper Fold a blank piece of paper in half hamburger style Fold the paper in half again, hamburger style You should now have a thin paper column Fold the paper in half two more times, hamburger style, and then open the entire page back up If you folded correctly, you should have 24 boxes on your paper

Setting Up Your Paper, Continued… Orient the paper so the binder hole punches are at the top Fold the left and right sides of the paper in to meet the middle Your paper should look like this:

We will cut the doors at the end! Labeling the Boxes Label the boxes on your paper as follows: You will be responsible for writing the definition inside the tab for each word. This will serve as flashcards to help you when you are studying. Diseases Vocabulary Part 2 Pathogen We will cut the doors at the end! Carrier Vector Antimicrobial Vaccine Epidemic Pandemic

Pathogen Disease-causing organism

Vector Organisms (excluding humans) that spread diseases without showing symptoms

Carrier A person or an animal that shows no symptoms of a disease but has the infectious microbe of that disease and is capable of transmitting (passing it on) it to others

Antimicrobial A substance that kills microbes in an effort to prevent the spread of a disease

Vaccine A substance that improves immunity to a particular disease. They contain either parts of microbes or whole microbes that have been killed or weakened so that they don’t cause disease.

Epidemic Occurs when the incidence rate of a disease is higher than expected in a certain area

Pandemic An epidemic that spreads across a large area, like a continent