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| 8413526819 | pandemic | an epidemic that is geographically widespread | 0 | |
| 8413585515 | carcinogen | causes cancer | 1 | |
| 8422994315 | teratogen | causes birth defect | 2 | |
| 8422996841 | mutagen | causes DNA muntates | 3 | |
| 8423000435 | Toxin | produced by living things | 4 | |
| 8423007838 | Toxicant | produced by human | 5 | |
| 8423018877 | Toxicility | ability to harm | 6 | |
| 8423023535 | exposure | amount of toxic chemical our body comes in contact with | 7 | |
| 8423039815 | corridor | combine species from two areas | 8 | |
| 8423080349 | bioinformatics | the science of collecting and analyzing complex biological data such as genetic codes. | 9 | |
| 8423094393 | canal | "yunhe" divided species | 10 | |
| 8423133932 | pathogen | infectious agents such as prions, bacteria, viruses | 11 | |
| 8423169388 | Acute respiratory infections | pneumonia, influenza, and whooping cough | 12 | |
| 8423189299 | Diarrheal diseases | dysentery, cholera, typhoid | 13 | |
| 8423231845 | Tuberculosis |  | 14 | |
| 8423244418 | Malaria | Bad air; a disease usually spread by infected mosquitoes |  | 15 |
| 8423260770 | HIV/AIDS | Come from chimps | 16 | |
| 8423270727 | Measles |  | 17 | |
| 8423276803 | Hepatitis |  | 18 | |
| 8423285523 | tetanus | A serious bacterial infection that causes painful muscle spasms and can lead to death. | 19 | |
| 8423304395 | Emergent Diseases | New Diseases like Ebola, bird flu, wast nile | 20 | |
| 8423331601 | west nile | from bird and mosquito | 21 | |
| 8423361291 | Bacterial resistance | Microbes constantly & rapidly mutate. This can make them genetically resistant to antibiotics | 22 | |
| 8423367294 | edemic | disease that is always present in population | 23 | |
| 8423399390 | Thermal Pollution | can be acute or chronic more heat, less dessolved o2 | 24 | |
| 8423429261 | Risk Assessment | identifying hazards and evaluating their risks | 25 | |
| 8423439728 | Greatest Risks People face | 1. poverty 2. being born male 3. smoking 4. being 35% overweight | 26 | |
| 8423460820 | dose | actual amount of a chemical that enters and reacts with our body systems over time | 27 | |
| 8423465877 | inhalation | thru lung | 28 | |
| 8423479227 | Dermal abroption | thru skin | 29 | |
| 8423485054 | Oral | through digestive system | 30 | |
| 8423489909 | Injection | directly to veins | 31 | |
| 8423514634 | heavy metal ingestion | chronic | 32 | |
| 8423547630 | No threshold | Any exposure is harmful and increases with the dosage Ex: chemicals that cause birth defects or cancer. | 33 | |
| 8423553223 | Threshold | Harmful effects occur only when the dosage exceeds a certain level Ex: body can repair itself | 34 | |
| 8423583136 | Local effect: causes damage only where it touches Systemic: gets into bloodstream and effects many organs Bioaccumulation: toxin builds up in body systems over time Antagonism: one substance interferes with the action of another Synergism: the interaction of two or more chemical is greater than the sum of their parts | types of effects | 35 | |
| 8423601082 | Malignant | tumor invades surrounding tissue. | 36 | |
| 8423611676 | Benign | well defined tumor that doesn't spread. | 37 |
