DISEASES AND MICROORGANIS

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What it is.. Any organism too small to be viewed by the

unaided eye.

Examples: bacteria or some fungi and algae.

1. MICROORGANISM

What it is.. A condition of an organ, or system of an organism. A disease may

result from various causes such as: infection, genetic defect, or

environmental stress. Diseases are characterized by an identifiable group of

signs or symptoms.

Examples: Cancer, Malaria, or Ebola

2. DISEASE

What it is… A very large group of microorganisms comprising one of the

three domains of living organisms. They are prokaryotic, unicellular, and either

free-living in soil or water or parasites of plants or animals.

Examples: E. coli and Staphylococcus

3. BACTERIA

What it is… An extremely small living thing that causes a disease and that spreads from one person or animal to

another.

Examples: Rhino Virus - Common cold or a flu virus

4. VIRUS

What it is.. Malaria is a disease that is spread by the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito. Malaria symptoms include fever,

chills, and nausea.

Examples OR CONNECTIONS: Malaria is a deadly disease just as small pox was before

vaccine protection.

5. MALARIA

What it is… A plant or an animal organism that lives in or on another and

takes its nourishment from that other organism.

Examples: leech, lice, mosquitos

6. PARASITES

What it is…A substance that is usually injected into a person or animal to protect against a

particular disease

Examples: Whooping cough vaccine, chicken pox vaccine, flu vaccine

7. VACCINE

What it is… A deadly virus that causes fearsome symptoms, the most prominent being high fever and massive internal bleeding. Ebola

virus kills as many as 90% of the people it infects

Examples or CONNECTIONS: Ebola has a high death rate just as AIDS.

8. EBOLA

What it is… Any one of a group of related plants that have no flowers and

that live on dead or decaying things

Examples: molds, mushrooms, or yeasts)

9. FUNGI

What it is …Protozoans are simple organisms, or living things. Most protozoans are so tiny

that they can be seen only with a microscope.

Example or CONNECTIONS: They belong to a group of organisms called protists, which are

neither plants nor animals.

10. PROTOZOA