GCSE Biology – Diseases

Last updated: 22/04/2020
OCR Gateway GCSE Science – Combined science foundation Monitoring and maintain health GCSE Biology – Diseases

Learning Objectives

-I can describe the different ways diseases are caused (viruses, bacteria, protist or fungi)
-I can describe how diseases are spread in plants and animals
-I can define the term pathogen
-I can describe how bacteria and viruses reproduce inside the body
-I can explain how bacteria and viruses can make a person feel ill

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  1. Which of these is a type of disease?

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  2. Which of these is a type of disease?

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  3. How can the spread of communicable disease be prevented?

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  4. How can the spread of communicable disease be prevented?

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  5. How is infectious disease spread?

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  6. Give an example of direct contact.

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  7. Give an example of a disease which spreads by direct contact.

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  8. Give an example of ingesting contamination.

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  9. Give an example of a disease which spreads by ingestion.

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  10. Give an example of disease spreading through air.

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  11. Give an example of a disease which spreads through the air.

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  12. How does hand washing reduce spread of disease?

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  13. How do insect nets prevent spread of disease?

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  14. What are pathogens?

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  15. Which of these is a pathogen?

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  16. What is bacteria and viruses an example of?

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  17. What can bacteria and viruses do?

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  18. What is the definition of bacteria?

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  19. What can bacteria produce?

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  20. What do toxins do to body tissue?

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  21. What is the definition of a virus?

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  22. Where do viruses live inside the body?

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  23. What happens when viruses divide within a body cell?

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  24. Why do we feel ill when viruses invade a body cell?

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  25. What does bacteria release making a person feel ill?

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