SCIENCE
VIRUS AND BACTERIA
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Agree
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Disagree
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The agents that cause disease fall into five groups: viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, and helminths (worms). Protozoa and worms are usually grouped together as parasites, and are the subject of the discipline of parasitology, whereas viruses, bacteria, and fungi are the subject of microbiology.
Detailed explanation-2: -FALSE. Most microbes either help human health or do not affect people’s health one way or the other. Of the millions of types of microbes in the world, only a few make us sick.
Detailed explanation-3: -Most bacteria won’t hurt you-less than 1 percent of the different types make people sick.
Detailed explanation-4: -Viral diseases are caused by viruses. Diseases caused by bacteria include diphtheria, typhoid, cholera etc. Malaria and sleeping sickness are diseases caused by protozoa. Worms like roundworms, tapeworms could cause diseases like Ascariasis and Taeniasis respectively.