The Science of Zombies - Question Worksheet

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Name: __________________________________
Date: ___________________________________
1) What is encephalitis? _______________________________________________________
2) Name two other types of diseases that end in the suffix “–itis”.
i) ___________________________
ii) ___________________________
3) What is the difference between the furious and the dumb strain of the rabies virus?
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4) What is hydrophobia and how does it help the rabies virus transmit itself? __________________________
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5) What is a prion? _________________________________________________________________________
6) How do prions make more of themselves? ____________________________________________________

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7) What make prions different from all other forms of infectious agents?
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8) Name three prion diseases from the article.

i) ______________________________________
ii) ______________________________________
iii) ______________________________________
9) When you look at prion infected brain tissue and non-infected brain tissue, what is one noticeable
difference between the two? _______________________________________________________________
10) How do people with congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP) behave differently than people without CIP?
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11) What are the following regions of the brain responsible for? Fill in the chart.
Brain Region Function of this Region.
1) Broca’s Area
2) Wernicke’s Area
3) Amygdala
4) Fusiform Gyrus
12) Knowing what you now know about the effects of hyperthyroidism, what do you think the effects of
hypothyroidism are? Hypo- means “below”, “under” and “less than normal”.
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13) What benefit is the tapeworm parasite getting from its host? _____________________________________
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14) How does the host suffer due to the presence of the tapeworm? __________________________________
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15) How does the tapeworm prevent itself from being removed along with the waste? ___________________
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16) What is the function of a proglottid? _________________________________________________________

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17) If you found yourself in the middle of a zombie apocalypse and you only had time to retrieve 1 item from a
major shopping mall before the whole mall gets infested by zombies, what item would you choose to help
you fight the zombies? Think about what you’ve learned about zombies.
a) What item did you choose? _____________________________________________________________
b) Based on what you’ve learned from the article, explain why this item will be useful for fighting zombies.
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1) What is encephalitis? _______________________________________________________

5) What is a prion? _________________________________________________________________________

6) How do prions make more of themselves? ____________________________________________________

8) Name three prion diseases from the article.

Brain Region Function of this Region.

16) What is the function of a proglottid? _________________________________________________________

a) What item did you choose? _____________________________________________________________

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