Biology GCSE key words: chapter 6

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Communicable
A disease that can be transmitted from one organism to another
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Infectious
Describes a pathogen that can easily be transmitted, or an infected person who can pass on the disease
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Vector
An animal that spreads a communicable disease
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Antibiotic
A group of medicine, first discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming, that kill bacteria and fungi but not viruses
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Chitin
A polymer made from sugars that form cell walls of fungi and the exoskeleton of insects
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Hyphae
Branching filaments of a fungus that spread out
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Describes a pathogen that can easily be transmitted, or an infected person who can pass on the disease

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Infectious

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An animal that spreads a communicable disease

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A group of medicine, first discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming, that kill bacteria and fungi but not viruses

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A polymer made from sugars that form cell walls of fungi and the exoskeleton of insects

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