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

2. 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

3. 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:

4. 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

5. Pathogen
Disease-causing organism

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

7. 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

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

9. 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.

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

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