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Checklist for the test:

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Microbes
Pathogens
Signs/Symptoms
Vectors
Intro Project

MICROBES:
Small micro-organisms that could cause:

- diseases
- food
- decay 1
Bacteria, Viruses & fungi are all microbes but only the ones that can make you ill
are called Pathogens
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- This can be observed by others
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- This cannot be observed by others
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by air:
by water droplets in air:
by physical contact :
by food:
by water:
by animals:
by bodily fluids:

PROJECTS: Pathogens
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Once again a build up project in prezi
Start-up info and rubric is online
deadline is now 6th
groups of 2 or 3 (choose wisely)

BACTERIA:
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single cellular
exist in water, air and soil (dirt)
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MDR: Disease that is multi drug resistance
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Once they have a host their growth can be
explosive

FUNGI:
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Can be single-cellular or multi -cellular
Main body is called mycelium
They can spread and feed hyphae
They release digestive juices and the hyphae absorb the priciest of this

PARASITES:
- Are multi cellular
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Epidemic: Loads of people are sick in a big area

Pendemic: Spreads in multiple countries and continents
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This is how our body knows

Antibodies:
Your cells produce these to fit the antigens and to attack the pathogens
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immunisation:
Active:
-live attenuated
- dna
passive:
Antibiotics
-discovered by alexander (1928)

drugs:
-depressent
- painkillers

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No medicine against viruses

fossil
evolution
extinction

fossils:
- the remains od dead organisms
- The remains of imprints of dead organisms
how can they be preserved:
-any way that removed oxygen to preserve the fossil

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in mud that became rock
in tarpits & peat bogs
in amber
in ice



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