Medical Interventions EOC exam with
correct answers
medical intervention - 🔷ANSWERS ✔✔🖊a measure that is taken to improve health or
change the direction of how the disease progresses
What are the main categories of interventions that function to maintain human
health? - 🔷ANSWERS ✔✔🖊preventive, pharmaceutical, and surgical
How do scientists gather evidence during the potential outbreak of an infectious
disease? - 🔷ANSWERS ✔✔🖊Scientists gather potential outbreaks using bioinformatics.
What is bioinformatics? - 🔷ANSWERS ✔✔🖊Bioinformatics is collecting, classifying,
storing,
and analyzing information.
How can DNA sequences be used to identify disease pathogens? - 🔷ANSWERS 🖊
✔✔DNA sequences are ran through a website or BLAST. The DNA is compares the
sequence to the human genome.
What is an antibody? - 🔷ANSWERS ✔✔🖊An antibody is what responds to the immune
response that is the antigen. The primary antibody binds with the specific antigen
during ELISA.
How do antibodies identify and inactivate antigens? - 🔷ANSWERS ✔✔🖊Antibodies
identify the antigens through their immune response. The antigens are inactivated
when they bind together.
How can an ELISA assay be used to detect disease? - 🔷ANSWERS ✔✔🖊An ELISA
assay is used to bind a primary antibodies to a specific antigens. Next, an enzyme-
linked secondary antibodies binds to the primary antibodies. Then, substrates are
added. If the enzyme combines with the substrate, the solution turns blue. This shows
there is a pathogen.
