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HSC Biology Module 7: Infectious Disease

Pathogens, transmission, immune responses, and strategies to prevent and control infectious disease.

21lessons

3quizzes

8–10hrs study

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Lessons

What Is Infectious Disease?

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Classifying Pathogens

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Koch and Pasteur, Germ Theory

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Modes of Transmission

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Microbial Testing

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Disease in Agriculture, Plants

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Disease in Agriculture, Animals

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Checkpoint Quiz 1, Causes of Infectious Disease

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How Plants Respond to Pathogens

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Physical and Chemical Responses in Animals

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The Innate Immune System

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Adaptive Immunity, Antigens and Antibodies

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T Cells and Cell-Mediated Immunity

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Primary and Secondary Immune Response

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Checkpoint Quiz 2, Responses and Immunity

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Vaccination, Active and Passive Immunity

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Hygiene, Quarantine and Public Health

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Antibiotics and Antivirals

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Pesticides and Genetic Engineering

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Malaria and Dengue, Global Case Study

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Historical and Cultural Disease Control

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Indigenous Protocols and Bush Medicine

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Environmental Management and Pandemic Control

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Module Quiz, Infectious Disease

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Module Snapshot

21lessons

2checkpoints + module quiz

105MC questions

8–10hstudy time

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