Pathogens (Leaving Cert Biology): Flashcards
📚Flashcards
Practise the cards
15 cards from this deck
ShowHide
Practise the cards
15 cards from this deck
Pathogen definition
Pathogen definition
Organism/agent causing disease
Six main pathogen types
Six main pathogen types
Prions, viruses, bacteria, fungi, protists, parasites
What prions are
What prions are
Misfolded proteins that transmit & multiply
Prion disease in sheep
Prion disease in sheep
Scrapie
Prion disease in cattle
Prion disease in cattle
BSE (mad cow disease)
Prion disease in humans
Prion disease in humans
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Prion disease outcomes
Prion disease outcomes
Dementia, typically fatal
What protists are
What protists are
Single-celled eukaryotes (not plants/animals/fungi)
Malaria-causing protist
Malaria-causing protist
Plasmodium species
Sleeping sickness pathogen
Sleeping sickness pathogen
Trypanosomes
Where protist diseases are common
Where protist diseases are common
Tropical & subtropical regions
5 parasitic animal examples
5 parasitic animal examples
Roundworms, tapeworms, mites, lice, ticks
Roundworm health effect
Roundworm health effect
Malnutrition
Disease transmitted by ticks
Disease transmitted by ticks
Lyme disease (and others)
How prions multiply
How prions multiply
Convert normal proteins to misfolded forms (exponential)