💢Definitions & terms in patholgy💢
Keep reading and keep sharing 🔶Parasite: An organism living upon or in another living organism (the host) and obtaining the food from the invading host. 🔶 Pathogen: An entity, usually a micro-organism that can cause the disease. 🔶 Biotroph: A plant pathogenic fungus that requires living host cells i.e. an obligate parasite. 🔶 Hemibiotroph: A plant pathogenic fungus that initially requires living host cells but after killing the host cell grows on the dead and dying cells. 🔶 Necrotroph: A pathogenic fungus that kills the host and survives on the dying and dead cells. 🔶 Pathogenicity: The relative capability of a pathogen to cause disease. 🔶 Pathogenesis: The development of a disease and the chain of events leading to that disease. 🔶 Virulence: The degree of infectivity of a given pathogen. 🔶 Infection: The initiation and establishment of a parasite within a host plan...