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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Pathogen | any disease causing bacteria |
| Carrier | organism that passes disease along |
| Host | has disease and passes it a long |
| Intermediate Host | only a host for a short period of time |
| Where are Marburg and Ebola Virus found? | East and Central Africa |
| Vector | Carrier or known transporter of a virus. (monkeys,birds, bats) |
| Epidemiology | study of spread diseases |
| Anthrax | Bacillus Anthracis (bacterium) |
| Marburg Virus | The causative agent of Marburg haemorrhagic fever. The virus is closely related to Ebola and originates in Uganda and Eastern Congo. Egyptian fruit bats are suspected of being the reservoir host. |
| Ebola Virus | RNA. Ebola hemorrhagic fever: life-threatening multi-organ infection with fever, CNS involvement, and bleeding from multiple sites, especially mucus membranes. |
| Virus | Common Cold, Influenza |
| Hemmorhagic Fever | human and animal virus |
| Avian Flu | the bird flu H5N1 occurs aong wild birds, can be transmitted from birds to humans, and is deadly |
| Swine Flu | caused by varient of H1N1 (influenza) easily transmitted person-to-person quadruple reassortment: genes from Asia and European pigs, birds, and humans 86 confirmed pediatric deaths |
| Spanish Flu Pandemic | 1918.......30-100 million people end of WWI troops going home on ships and getting it |
| H5N1 | Avian Flu |
| H1N1 | Swine Flu |
| Primate | mammal with hand like feet (monkey) |
| Epidemic | more local (city, state) |
| Pandemic | Worldwide |
| Vaccine for Ebola? | No, still developing |
| Would the 1918 Pandemic be different now in 2012? | Yes, much more medical resources however, there are many more people so it could spread faster. |
| Monkey in Movie Outbreak | Originally from South America |
| Gene | Unit of heredity that is composed of segments of DNA and is passed from parent to offspring |
| Genome | the complete genetic material contained in an individual |
| How many genes are in the human genome? | ...30,000 |
| How many Chromosomes are in the human Genome? | ...23 pairs |
| DNA | ...a chemical compound that in humans is usually unique to each individual |
| How is DNA structured? | two strands wrapped around one another in a spiral like structure known as a "double helix" |
| What is "base pair"? | ... |
| What is the "Human Genome Project"? and Who was involved? | ... |
| Mad Cow Disease | A fatal brain disorder prompted by consumption of food containing prions, which are abnormally folded infectious proteins found in the brains and other organs of infected sheep, cows, and other livestock., a fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system |
| Prion | an infectious protein particle |
| Creutzfeld-Jakob disease | A central nervous system disease that causes a slow degeneration - leads to dementia - caused by a small protein particle called a prion |
| Kuru | A neurological disorder (brain disease) that affects humans and is caused by prions; characterized by body tremors and shaking |
| Bovine Spongiform Encephilitis | Mad Cow Disease |
| When was Sound first used in films? | in about 1926 |
| First step taken in order "to do" science | observe something that elicits a question |
| Movies First appeared when? | 1890's |
| "Snakes!" in Raiders of the Lost Ark were really ...? | Legless lizards |
| Characteristics of Legless Lizards..... | have eyelids,longer tails, drop their tails. |
| Science | Real Science with a testable hypothesis |
| Psuedo Science | Fake Science- no testable hypothesis |
| "Appeal to Authority" | having a well known person advertise to get the publis attention |
| Essential to Red-Cokaded Woodpecker | Pine Needles, Dry Climate |
| Extinct | species that no longer exists, all individuals have died |
| Reason why Ivory billed is endagered or extinct while Pileated is doing well? | Ivory billed fed on beetle larvae that became uncommon with loss of forests while Pileated feeds on common ants |
| Ivory Billed Woodpecker was once known to occur in old growth forests where? | SouthEastern US and Cuba |
| Now where was the Ivory billed most recently supposedly spotted? | Arkansas |
| The law that protects the endangered species in the US is...? | Endangered Species Act of 1973 |
| Reports of Ivory billed in Arkansas | discredited....data did not allow other scientists to evaluate the observations and come to the same conclusions |
| How do male and female ivory billeds differ? | Males havea red crest, females have no red crest |
| Difference in Ivory vs. Pileated | Pileated is about 2in smaller in height and width. Pileated has a back shield on back, ivory has a white shield on back |
| Who founded "Smokefree America" | an heir to the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company fortune |
| What is the most effective way lobbyists influence legislation? | By creating doubts about the scientific evidence provided by their opposition |
| Which group is anti-smoking and funded by the tobacco companies? | American Legacy Foundation |
| Which of the following is NOT a business supported lobbying group that attempts to cast doubt on the science behind climate change? | Union of Concerned Scientists |
| Federal Advisory Committees are only allowed to provide advice to ...? | The Executive branch of govt. |
| lobbying | working to change points of view particularly in legislation by creating doubt or by touting benefits (advocating) |
| Federal Advisory Committee | Committee that advises executive branch on a range of subjects....can be lobbyist USED to be paid but not anymore |
| zoetrope | spins images on paper in rotating drum; 1834; early motion-picture machine |
| praxinoscope | -1889 -animation device -used a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder -Could Project |
| kinetoscope | A moving-picture device, invented by Thomas Edison and his associates in 1892, that allowed one person at a time to watch a motion picture by looking through the viewer. |
| Clarence Darrow | American lawyer and leader of American Civil Liberties Union. Defense Attorney for popular British Economist Thomas Malthus |
| William Jennings Bryan | opponent of Darwinism democratic politician- Attorney for Prosecution |
| John Scopes | Teacher who violated Tennessee Buther Act which prohibited teaching evolution |
| Evolution | change over time |
| Charles Darwin | English Naturalist 1809-1882 |
| Scopes Trial | Dayton , Tennessee....verdict-guilty-didnt stand, overturned on technicality |
| Intelligent Design | Law against teaching special creation in school, no testable hypothesis=not a science |
| Mutation | permanent change in sequence of base pairs-Somatic, Gametic, Gameto-sex cells, sperm cells |
| Mutagen | Chemicals, Radiation, Heat |
| Mendel | Catholic Priest, Father of Genetics |
| Charles Lyell | 1797-1875 Uniformitarianism; present key to past |
| sequencing (DNA) | the order of characteristic traits(bases) that make up DNA |
| Base Pairs | Building blocks for DNA |
| Gattaca | A series of nucleotide bases on a strand of DNA |
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