Diseases are a major cause of ill health in humans.
The Table shows three diseases that affect humans.
Table
| Disease | Type of pathogen |
|---|---|
| athlete's foot | |
| HIV/AIDS | |
| tuberculosis |
State what is meant by a communicable disease.
Complete the Table.
Use words from the list. Each word may be used once, more than once or not at all.
bacterium fungus protist virus
Health is a state of physical and mental well-being. A person can be in poor health without having a disease.
Give one factor, other than disease, that can cause poor health.
181 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Biology 6.3 Monitoring and maintaining health, covering 6.3.1 Health and disease, 6.3.2 Interactions between diseases, 6.3.3 Spread of communicable diseases, 6.3.4 Common infections and diseases, 6.3.5 Physical plant defence responses, 6.3.6 Chemical plant defence responses, 6.3.7 Detecting and identifying plant diseases, 6.3.8 White blood cells and platelets, 6.3.9 Non-specific defence systems, 6.3.10 The immune system, 6.3.11 Monoclonal antibodies, 6.3.12 Vaccines and medicines, 6.3.13 Aseptic techniques, 6.3.14 Discovery and development of new medicines, 6.3.15 Causes of non-communicable diseases, 6.3.16 Treatments for cardiovascular disease, 6.3.17 Lifestyle factors and non-communicable diseases, 6.3.18 Cancer, 6.3.19 Stem cells in medicine, 6.3.20 Gene technology in medicine, and 6.3.21 The human genome and medicine. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.