disease definitions

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microorganisms that cause disease?
pathogens
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an organism that lives on or inside another organisms called a host?
parasite
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diseases caused bu pathogen that is transmitted from one host orgnaism to another?
communicable
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disease not cause by pathogen ?
non-communicable
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the transfer of a pathogen from an infected host to an uninfected host?
transmission
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what does HIV stand for?
human immunodeficiency virus
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a virus such a HIV with a single-standed RNA as its genetic material, not DNA
retrovirus
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the paracite that causes maleria is callsified with other unicellual eukaryotes in the kongdom of...
protoctista
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a small reproductive structure. start to grow when they find a suitable food source. can be hiplodi or diploid?
spores
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an organism that transefers a pathogen from an infected host to an uninfected host. and is usally not harmed in any way by the pathogen?
vector
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defence mechanisms that are present all the time in plants?
positive
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the transfer of a pathogen from an infected host to an uninfected host?

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