AQA GCSE Combined Science Trilogy · 8464
Specification 4.3.1.1, 4.3.1.5, 4.6.2.4, 6.5.1.4, 6.5.4.1.3 · Paper 1, Paper 2, Paper 6
An organism that carries a pathogen from one host to another.
Revise: Infectious diseasesSome pathogens travel between hosts in a vector, an organism that carries the pathogen. Malaria is caused by a protist, which an infected mosquito transfers to a person when it feeds on their blood. The mosquito carries the disease-causing organism; it is not itself the pathogen.
- Revise: Protist diseases
An organism that carries and transmits a pathogen between hosts. Mosquitoes act as vectors for malaria.
- Revise: Genetic Engineering
A carrier, usually a bacterial plasmid or a virus, used to transfer a gene into a target cell in genetic engineering.
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- Revise: Resultant Forces
A quantity with both magnitude and direction. Force is a vector quantity.
- Revise: Velocity