Microbe Unit Review

What do we call the spread of a disease in a small region?

epidemic

Which antibiotic would be best to use to treat Influenza?

None, flu is caused by a virus

What is the best way to minimize the impact of an

epidemic?

immunization

How might a fungal disease, such as Athlete’s Foot, be

spread?

By direct contact with fungus

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

Genetically altering a plant so that it has greater resistance to

disease and insect problems would be an example of what?

biotechnology

What kind of impact can biotechnology have on the amount of food that can be

produced per acre in the world?

It would increase

If a doctor prescribes an antibiotic to treat an illness,

what kind of pathogen is likely the cause the illness?

bacteria

Name two areas where biotechnology is having the most

impact right now?

Medicine and agriculture

What animal is the vector for Malaria?

Anopheles Mosquitoes

Strep Throat is caused by what kind of pathogen?

bacteria

What is the primary difference between and

epidemic and a pandemic?

Pandemics occur across much larger areas

Diseases that can be spread from one organism

to another are called what?

infectious

What would be the main problem associated with

being the carrier of a disease?

Not knowing you were contagious

Would the HIV AIDS outbreak which has lasted over 30 years, across every

continent be considered an epidemic or pandemic?

pandemic

The amount of crops grown in a given field is

referred to as what?

Yield

Why is it so critical to continually be working on new

antibiotics?

Pathogens are becoming resistant to antibiotics over time

Hand sanitizers help prevent the spread of

disease by which method?

Direct contact

Name an ethical consideration associated with the use of GMO’s (Genetically Modified

Organism)?

Long term environmental and human health effects

What will likely happen to the incidence of infection disease in a community as the sanitation level

of that community increases?

decrease

Are viruses living or nonliving?

Non-living

What kind of pathogen causes the disease cholera?

bacteria

Why can’t HIV AIDS be successfully treated with

antibiotics?

It is caused by a virus

Why are mosquitoes considered vectors for

Malaria?

They cannot get the disease and are necessary for its transmission

What antibiotic was developed from a fungus and has been used to cure many illnesses that could

have led to epidemics?

penicillin

What must a virus do to reproduce?

Be absorbed by a cell

How do bacteria reproduce?

Binary Fission

Downs Syndrome is caused by what?

genetics

What is the normal course of action when treating

bacterial diseases?

antibiotics

Risk/Benefit analysis, which considers a balance between

benefit and risk is an important consideration in what new area of

scientific investigation?

biotechnology

In a parasitic relationship, the parasite benefits by the

association. How is the host affected in a parasitic

relationship?

Host is negatively affected

Introducing foreign DNA into an organism in order to modify the organism’s DNA is an example

of what?

Genetic engineering

What kind of organism is the pathogen that causes the disease

Tetanus?

bacteria

What kind of pathogen spreads cancer?

Cancer is non-infectious

Rabies and Lyme disease are both spread by contact with

animals. What are the animals that are necessary to spread a

disease called?

vectors

What is the best way to prevent microbial

infection?

Washing hands

All organisms which are microscopic in size can be

classified as what?

microbes