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Microbiology Type DEFINITION Antibiotic VOD Medicine used to kill bacteria Anti-microbial VOD Substances that kill microorganisms Bacteria VOD Prokaryote that can be helpful or harmful Biotechnology/biomedical VOD Using organisms to advance science Carrier VOD Non-symptomatic disease carrying host Contagious VOD Can be spread from person to person Dose VOD The quantity of a substance Epidemic/Pandemic VOD Rapid and widespread outbreak of a disease Exposure VOD Being near the disease-causing agent Genetic Engineering VOD Scientists change the genes of living organisms Genetics VOD Inheritable traits from parents Immunization VOD Process to prevent a disease-vaccination Infection VOD Having the disease-causing agent actively impacting one or more body systems Microbe VOD A microscopic organism (pathogen) Mutagen VOD Substance capable of changing a cell Parasite VOD Organism that feeds on another organism (host) Pathogen VOD An agent that causes disease Pharmaceutical VOD Having to do with preventing or treating diseases Potency VOD The strength of substance Prevention VOD Activities designed to protect patients or other members of the public from actual or potential health threats and their harmful consequences. Susceptibility VOD Individual response to an outside stimulus Toxin VOD Poisonous substance produced by an organism Treatment VOD Attempting to stop or slow down the infection of a disease Vaccine VOD Medicine that prevents a disease (makes antibodies) Vector VOD An organism (mosquito, tick) that spreads disease to a host without harm to itself Virus VOD A microscopic particle that causes a disease Contamination NON Exposured to a poisonous or polluting substance. Host NON An organism that a parasite lives in Hygeine NON Cleanliness