give your answers.
a) Bacteria:
• What is the meaning of the word ‘bacteria’?
• Who coined the term and when was it coined?
• Name at least five bacterial diseases.
b) Virus:
• What is the meaning of the word ‘Virus?
• Who coined the term and when was it coined?
• Name at least five viral diseases
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Answer: give your ans a)- Bacteria are microscopic living organisms, usually one-celled, that can be found everywhere. They can be dangerous, such as when they cause infection, or beneficial, as in the process of fermentation (such as in wine) and that of decomposition.
b) In 1676, Anton Van Leeuwenhoek first observed bacteria through a microscope and called them “animalcules.” In 1838, the German Naturalist Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg called them bacteria, from the Greek baktḗria, meaning "little stick." An apt word, as the first observed bacteria were shaped like rods, although ...
c) Cholera.
Leprosy.
Tuberculosis.
Plague.
Syphilis.
Anthrax.
Scarlet fever.
Diphtheria.
meaning of virus- infective agent that typically consists of a nucleic acid molecule in a protein coat, is too small to be seen by light microscopy, and is able to multiply only within the living cells of a host.
coined term - The contribution of the discovery of the virus was given to Dmitri Ivanowasky in the year 1892. 2. The name virus was coined by Martinus Willem Beijerinck.
viral disease Chickenpox.
Flu (influenza)
Herpes.
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV/AIDS)
Human papillomavirus (HPV)
Infectious mononucleosis.
Mumps, measles and rubella.
Shingles.
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