3.2.1 Agents of Disease

Can cause ringworm, valley fever, athletes foot

Causes whooping cough, TB, strep throat

Any of various infectious proteins that are abnormal forms of normal cellular proteins

Examples are amoebas, algae; can cause malaria

A large, eukaryotic, multicellular, parasitic worm

Saprophytic and parasitic spore-producing eukaryotic organisms that lack chlorophyll

An example is a tapeworm that can live and feed in human intestines

Causes Mad Cow Disease

A single-celled, prokaryotic microorganism

Any eukaryotic protist of the phylum or subkingdom Protozoa

Causes the Flu, Covid-19, common cold

Any of a large group of nonliving, submicroscopic infective agents that typically comprise an RNA or DNA core of genetic material surrounded by a protein coat