Question

What is a pathogen? What is a vector? Differentiate.

Answer 1

Answer:

VEctor is an organism which spreads the disease from one person to another. Examplle is mosquito, which spreads malaria from one person to another. Pathogen is an organism which causes disease in an organism. The malarial parasite causing malaria is the pathogen here.

Answer 2

• In the widest definition, a pathogen is any organism that may cause illness. A pathogen is also known as an infectious agent or a germ.

• A vector is a piece of data in a vector space. The vectors have special names for many different vector spaces, which are given below. A Euclidean vector, in general, is a geometric object containing both length and direction (and so is frequently represented as a ray). Vector algebra can be used to add or scale such vectors. A vector space, on the other hand, is a collection of vectors. Linear algebra is used to describe these objects, which are defined by their dimensions.