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Microbe Unit Review
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What do we call the spread of a disease in a small region? epidemic
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Which antibiotic would be best to use to treat Influenza? None, flu is caused by a virus
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What is the best way to minimize the impact of an epidemic? immunization
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How might a fungal disease, such as Athlete’s Foot, be spread? By direct contact with fungus
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What aspect or our current society could most likely help an epidemic become a pandemic? We are very mobile, we move from one place to the other freely
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Genetically altering a plant so that it has greater resistance to disease and insect problems would be an example of what? biotechnology
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What kind of impact can biotechnology have on the amount of food that can be produced per acre in the world? It would increase
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If a doctor prescribes an antibiotic to treat an illness, what kind of pathogen is likely the cause the illness? bacteria
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Name two areas where biotechnology is having the most impact right now? Medicine and agriculture
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What animal is the vector for Malaria? Anopheles Mosquitoes
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Strep Throat is caused by what kind of pathogen? bacteria
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What is the primary difference between and epidemic and a pandemic? Pandemics occur across much larger areas
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Diseases that can be spread from one organism to another are called what? infectious
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What would be the main problem associated with being the carrier of a disease? Not knowing you were contagious
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Would the HIV AIDS outbreak which has lasted over 30 years, across every continent be considered an epidemic or pandemic? pandemic
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The amount of crops grown in a given field is referred to as what? Yield
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Why is it so critical to continually be working on new antibiotics? Pathogens are becoming resistant to antibiotics over time
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Hand sanitizers help prevent the spread of disease by which method? Direct contact
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Name an ethical consideration associated with the use of GMO’s (Genetically Modified Organism)? Long term environmental and human health effects
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What will likely happen to the incidence of infection disease in a community as the sanitation level of that community increases? decrease
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Are viruses living or nonliving? Non-living
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What kind of pathogen causes the disease cholera? bacteria
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Why can’t HIV AIDS be successfully treated with antibiotics? It is caused by a virus
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Why are mosquitoes considered vectors for Malaria? They cannot get the disease and are necessary for its transmission
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What antibiotic was developed from a fungus and has been used to cure many illnesses that could have led to epidemics? penicillin
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What must a virus do to reproduce? Be absorbed by a cell
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How do bacteria reproduce? Binary Fission
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Downs Syndrome is caused by what? genetics
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What is the normal course of action when treating bacterial diseases? antibiotics
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Risk/Benefit analysis, which considers a balance between benefit and risk is an important consideration in what new area of scientific investigation ? biotechnology
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In a parasitic relationship, the parasite benefits by the association. How is the host affected in a parasitic relationship? Host is negatively affected
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Introducing foreign DNA into an organism in order to modify the organism’s DNA is an example of what? Genetic engineering
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What kind of organism is the pathogen that causes the disease Tetanus? bacteria
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What kind of pathogen spreads cancer? Cancer is non- infectious
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Rabies and Lyme disease are both spread by contact with animals. What are the animals that are necessary to spread a disease called? vectors
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What is the best way to prevent microbial infection? Washing hands
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All organisms which are microscopic in size can be classified as what? microbes
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