MICROBIO 160 Study Guide - Final Guide: Dysplasia, Angiogenesis, Fellatio

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Microbiology
• Course: MICROBIO 160
• Professor: Shannon Compton

Document Summary

million to breast cancer = #1. 43% of cancer deaths due to tobacco, diet, and infection. A disease is an abnormal condition of an organism that impairs bodily functions. In humans, disease is often used more broadly to refer to any conditions that causes discomfort, dysfunction, distress, social problems, death to the person of those in contact. It sometimes includes injuries, etc. if they impact your life: ex. obesity, ptsd, alcoholism, are because of addictions. Infectious disease (common cold, limes disease: pathogen-mediated, specific organism or combination of organisms. Genetic disease - caused by abnormalities in an individual"s genetics: down"s syndrome. Environmental disease: molds, cigarette smoke, radon, lead poisoning. Phenomena, data, hypothesis, experiment, theory: ex. observation, hypothesis, prediction, test, reject/accept hypothesis. Aristotle - spontaneous generation - living things can come from nonliving things. Jean baptiste van harmony - mice come from dirty rags/grains. Francesco redi - challenged spontaneous generation, setting up.