Diseases
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Students’ Name
Rita Alexander
Question
a. Define the terms: (1) health (2) disease (3)
lymphocyte (4) phagocyte (5)antigen (6)antibody
Shontae Bacchus
b. Define the terms: (7)immune response
(8)immunity (9) vaccination (10) drug (11)drug
abuse (12)prescription
c. List the four types of diseases and for each type
give two examples in animals and two examples in
plants.
ii. Define the terms pathogen, communicable
disease and non-communicable disease.
d. Give the four general types of pathogens,
describe each and give a few effects of each on the
body.
e. Describe pathogenic diseases using an example
in an animal. Give symptoms, treatment and
control.
f. Describe pathogenic diseases using an example
in plants. Give symptoms, treatment and control.
g. Describe deficiency diseases using an example
in animals. Give symptoms, treatment and
control.
h. Describe deficiency diseases using an example
in plants. Give symptoms, treatment and control.
i. Describe hereditary diseases using an example
in animals. Give symptoms, treatment and
control.
j. Describe hereditary diseases using an example
in plants. Give symptoms, treatment and control.
Krista Barbour
Kaela Barrett
Sabrina Browne
Celeste Cumberbatch
Carisma Derrick
Zonique Dublin
Hasani Ellis-Browne
Twanie Fergus
Angelique FitzPatrick
Erin Gilbert
Sonja Hull
Shanika John
Antonia Marks
Nikelene McLean
Camila Neptune
Kimberly Prescott
Harlee Richards
Gabrielle Robertson
Andrea Veira
Paige Veira
Zinzi Williams
k. Describe physiological diseases using an
example in animals. Give symptoms, treatment
and control.
l. Describe physiological diseases using an
example in plants. Give symptoms, treatment and
control.
m. Define vectors and give examples of vectors.
ii. Explain how vectors work using the mosquito as
the vector and any disease that they carry (eg.
Malaria).
n. Explain how vectors work using the housefly as
the vector and any disease that they carry (eg.
Cholera).
o. Explain how a population of humans can
prevent the spread of diseases like malaria or
dengue fever.
ii. Explain how humans can damage the
environment in the process of destroying the
vector that causes the particular disease.
p. Explain what is a sexually transmitted disease or
in infection (STD/STI).
ii. Using AIDS, give the causative agent, symptoms
and control. Do the same for Gonnorrhoea
q. Using syphilis, give the causative agent,
symptoms and control. Do the same for genital
herpes.
r. Explain a few social and economic implications
of STDs.
s. Describe how the body’s natural defences work
(cilia, sheet of mucus, glands, cervix, tear gland,
white blood cells, skin, sebaceous gland).
t. Explain the types of immunity with examples
(natural immunity broken into natural active and
natural passive and artificial immunity broken into
artificial active and artificial passive).
Explain using a graph the process of primary and
secondary immune responses.
Explain what type of drug is alcohol (a legal
harmful drug) and describe its effects on the body.
Explain what type of drug is marijuana (an illegal
harmful drug) and describe its effects on the body.