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Preventing and Treating Disease

Quiz by Kathryn Smith

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24 questions
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  • Q1
    What is an antigen?
    Chemical on the surface of the pathogen
    Chemical produced by the white blood cells
    A mircobe that causes a disease
    30s
  • Q2
    How do vaccines protect people against disease infections?
    Vaccines introduce pathogenic antigens, which stimulate the white blood cells to produce antibodies.
    Vacccines stimulate antigens to be produced by the red blood cells
    Vaccines introduce a live version of the pathogen.
    20s
  • Q3
    How do antibiotics work?
    Antiobiotics kill viruses
    By relieving disease symptoms
    Antibiotics kill bacterial cells
    20s
  • Q4
    Why do schools and colleges grow bacterial plates at 25 degrees Celsius?
    This is the optimum temperature for bacterial growth
    The temperature prevents harmful pathogens growing
    This is a reliable temperature for schools to get reproducible results
    20s
  • Q5
    What are the different stages of drugs trials?
    Testing it on humans to see if the side effects are harmful
    Preclinical trials using cells, tissues and animals. Then clinical trials using healthy human volunteers and patients.
    On human volunteers first and then on animals
    20s
  • Q6
    What type of drug trials are there?
    Fully open trials only
    Blind, double blind and open trials
    Blind and partially blind trials
    20s
  • Q7
    Penicillin was the first antibiotic discovered in 1928 by...
    Carl Linnaeus
    Alexander Fleming
    Louis Pasteur
    20s
  • Q8
    Substance that controls the spread of bacteria in the body by killing them or stopping them reproducing -
    painkiller
    antibiotic
    antiviral drug
    20s
  • Q9
    A protein produced by the immune system in humans (and other animals) that attacks foreign organisms (antigens) that get into the body.
    antibody
    antigen
    antibiotic
    20s
  • Q10
    A foreign organism that gets into the body and triggers an immune response.
    antigen
    antibody
    antibiotic
    bacteria
    20s
  • Q11
    Drugs that prevent viruses replicating.
    antibiotics
    antivirals
    painkillers
    20s
  • Q12
    The form of cell division used by prokaryotes to reproduce.
    binary fission
    mitosis
    meiosis
    20s
  • Q13
    A substance that can change chemical reactions in the body.
    pathogen
    enzyme
    drug
    20s
  • Q14
    An ultramicroscopic infectious non-cellular organism that can replicate inside the cells of living hosts, with negative consequences.
    virus
    bacteria
    fungi
    20s
  • Q15
    The first time an organism becomes infected by a particular pathogen.
    first infection
    secondary infection
    primary infection
    20s

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