Glencoe Biology

Section 1: Infectious Diseases

Self-Check Quizzes

1
A disease ____ is a source of the pathogen in the environment.
A)interferon
B)pandemic
C)epidemic
D)reservoir
2
A ____ is a substance that can kill or inhibit the growth of infectious microorgansims.
A)antibiotic
B)vector
C)toxin
D)reservoir
3
What experiment is being utilized here?

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A)classical conditioning
B)Koch's postulates
C)enzyme test
D)operant conditioning
4
Which of these scenarios could be a direct cause of a disease becoming a pandemic?
A)sick child attending school
B)sick family returning from a foreign country
C)mosquito in a field next to houses
D)patient sneezing on a doctor
5
Which of these involves the fourth step in Koch's postulates?
A)suspected pathogen isolated from initially diseased host
B)suspected pathogen placed in healthy new host
C)pathogen in culture has same characteristics as original pathogen
D)diseased host is given antibiotics
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