Biology GCSE
Vectors
What Vectors means in Biology GCSE, as defined for AQA, OCR.
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Reference: OCR
Biological carriers such as mosquitoes that spread pathogens, distinct from the microscopic pathogen causing the disease.
Carriers such as aphids and mosquitoes that spread pathogens but are not themselves the disease-causing organism.
Organisms such as aphids that transmit viruses between plants.
Topics that use Vectors
- Communicable (infectious) diseases (AQA GCSE)
- Detection and identification of plant diseases (AQA GCSE)
- Monitoring and maintaining health (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- Communicable diseases
- Pathogens
- AIDS
- airborne droplets
- Antibiotics
- antibiotics versus antivirals
- antibodies
- antigen detection with antibodies
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