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UNIT 2 REVIEW: PATHOGENS/DISEASE AND PUBLIC HEALTH
1. What are bacteria? Where are they found? What general types (shapes) are there?
2. How can bacteria reproduce?
3. What type of disease is hamburger disease? What type of symptoms does it cause? What
measures could be taken to prevent the disease?
4. What is an antibiotic and what is one mode of action of antibiotics?
5a. Define antibiotic resistance and give one example.
UNIT 2 REVIEW: PATHOGENS/DISEASE AND PUBLIC HEALTH
b. How do bacteria become antibiotic resistant (at the microbe and at the human level)?
c. How do bacteria resist antibiotics (mechanisms of resistance)?
6. Compare and contrast the lytic and lysogenic cycle of viruses?
7. Why are viruses not considered living organisms?
8. What is one similarity and one difference between innate and adaptive/acquired immunity?
Give an example of each.
UNIT 2 REVIEW: PATHOGENS/DISEASE AND PUBLIC HEALTH
9. Leukocytes are made up of many different types of cells. Name these cells and explain
what they do.
10. Name two fungal diseases and two diseases caused by parasites.
11. Why are some viruses able to infect many different cell types and many different
species, while others are very specific to a certain species/cell type?
UNIT 2 REVIEW: PATHOGENS/DISEASE AND PUBLIC HEALTH
12. You fell off your bike and scraped your knee. Describe what happens at the level of your
immune system. Describe what would happen if you were exposed to the same pathogens
again.
13. What is the difference between antigenic shift and antigenic drift? Give examples of
each.
13. How do vaccines work? Describe the four types of vaccines
- what do they contain
- advantages/disadvantages of each
- examples