Question

What is Ebola?
1. Virus
2. Bacteria
3. Protozoa
4. Fungi

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 1 : Virus

The correct answer is Virus.

• Ebola is a virus.

• Virus:
  • The virus was discovered by Russian scientist Dmitri Ivanovsky.
  • Viruses are ultra-microscopic particles.
  • They are a connecting link between the living and nonliving organisms.
  • Characteristics of a Virus:
    • They become active inside living cells.
    • Nucleic acids replicate themselves and reproduce rapidly.
    • They cause diseases like bacteria and fungi. 
• Ebola Virus:
  • It is also known as the Ebola virus disease (EVD) or Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF).
  • Ebola is named after the river in Africa where the disease was first recognized in 1976.
• Diseases caused due to viruses:
  • ​Small Pox, Measles, Mumps, Herpes, Dengue, Common Cold and AIDS.

 

• Bacteria:
  • It was discovered by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek.
  • Diseases caused due to bacteria:
    • Diphtheria, Pneumonia, Cholera, Tetanus, Tuberculosis, Plague and Gonorrhoea
• Fungi:
  • Fungi are chlorophyll-less, central carriers, tissueless, Thalophytes.
  • Diseases caused due to Fungi:
    • ​Ringworm and Athlete’s Foot.
• Protozoa:
  • It is unicellular.
  • Diseases caused due to Protozoa:  
    • Malaria, dysentery, Diarrhoea, Kala Azar.