Protist | | The study of how and why diseases or other health-related conditions are distributed in a population the way they are, in other words, why some people get sick and others do not. (notes) |
Stakeholder | | An organism that provides a source of energy or suitable environment for a virus or for another organism to live. (p. 441) |
Epidemiologist | | Something that helps to solve a problem or mystery. (notes) |
Symbiosis | | A eukaryotic organsim that cannot be classified as an animal, plant, or fungus. (p. 469) |
Asexual reproduction | | The pattern of how a sickness is sperad out among a group of people. (notes) |
Psuedopod | | An organism whose cells lack a nucleus and some other cell structures. (p. 449) |
Autotroph | | Someone who represents a group of people and their interests. (notes) |
Epidemiology | | A long, whiplike structure used for movement that extends out through the cell membrane and cell wall. (p. 449) |
Ribosome | | Single-celled organisms that lack a nucleus; prokaryote. (p. 449) |
Host | | A heating process where food is heated to a temperature that is high enough to kill most harmful bacteria without changing the taste of the food. (p. 455) |
Respiration | | An investigator who studies the occurance of disease in populations of people for the purpose of preventing or controlling health problems. (notes) |
Decomposer | | An educated guess. An unproven idea, based on observation or reasoning, that can be proven or disproven through investigation. (notes) |
Cytoplasm | | A small, nonliving particle that invades and then reproduces inside a living cell.(p. 441) |
Virus | | A chemical that can kill bacteria without harming a person's cells. (p. 462) |
Cila | | The process in which a unicellular organism transfers some of its genetic material to another unicellualr organism. (p. 452) |
Vaccine | | An organism that makes its own food. (p. 409) |
Disease distribution | | An organism that lives on or in a host and causes harm to the host. (p. 441) |
Population | | The reproductive process that involves only one parent and produces off spring that are identicle to the parent. (p. 452) |
Antibiotic | | The process by which cells break down simple food molecules to release the energy they contain. (p. 451) |
Hypothesis | | The hairlike projections on the outside of cells that move in a wavelike manner. (p. 471) |
Hetrotroph | | All the people in a particular group. (notes) |
Contractile vacuole | | A disease caused by the presence of a living thing in the body. (p. 460) |
Pasteurization | | The cell structure that collects extra water from the cytoplasm and then expels it from the cell. (p. 470) |
Flagellum | | The ability of bacteria to withstand the effects of an antibiotic. (p. 463) |
Bacteria | | A poisn reproduced by bacterial pathogens that damages cells. (p. 461) |
Binary fusion | | An organism that breaks down large chemicals from dead organisms into small chemicals and returns important materials to the soil and water. (p. 456) |
Prokaryote | | An organism that cannot make its own food. (p. 409) |
Antibiotic resistance | | A form of asexual reproduction in which one cell divides to form two identicle cells. (p. 452) |
Toxin | | A substance introduced into the body to stimulate the production of chemicals that destroy specific viruses, bacteria, or other disease-causing organisms. (p. 465) |
Endospore | | A virus that infects bacteria. (p. 441) |
Bacteriophage | | An animal-like protist. (p. 469) |
Clue | | A small grain-like structure in the cytoplasm of a cell. (p. 449) |
Infectious disease | | A small, rounded, thick-walled, resting cell that forms inside a bacterial cell. (p. 453) |
Descriptive epidemiology | | A close relationship between two organisms in which at least one of the organisms benefits. ( p. 472) |
Parasite | | Study of the distribution of a disease or other health-related condition. Basis for forming hypotheses. (notes) |
Protozoan | | The region between the cell membrane and the nucleus. (p. 449) |
Conjugation | | A "fals foot" or temporary bulge of cytoplasm used for feeding and movement in some protozoans. (p. 470) |