2. What is a Zombie?
• In movies zombies are often
–humans infected by a virus.
–humans revived from the dead
• In nature zombie like behavior can be
seen in the Gyspsy Moth Caterpillar.
• In the religion of Voodoo zombies are humans
under the possessive control of a spell.

4. • Virus- an infective agent that multiplies inside an
organism.
• Is little particles that are about one-millionth of a
inch
• Virus are about smaller than bacteria
• The only way that a scientist can see a virus is by
a electron microscope

5. Let’s Think Scientific
• The black plague killed a lot
of people and spread fast all
over Europe wiping out 25%
to 50% of the population.
• The CDC estimates that a
• Virus- an infective agent more modern virus, H1N1
that multiplies inside an caused between 8,720 and
organism. 18,050 deaths from April
2009 to March 2010.

6. Rabies
• Causes brain infection
and inflammation.
• Zoonotic- transmitted
from animals.
• Usually transmitted
through bites.
• Infects central nervous
system and kills the brain

7. • Mad cow disease is incurable disease
• Fatal brain disease that affects cattle and some
animals such as sheep's and goats also cows
• Its is called mad cow disease cause it affects a
cow nervous system causing cow to act strangely
and lose control of walking and its normal thing
• Zoonotic

8. Mad cow disease

9. Gypsy Moth Caterpillar
-It is a caterpillar like any other one that turns into a
Gypsy Moth
-A single gene in its body gets a virus and makes them run
up to a treetops and just hang their until it dies of
starvation
-While the caterpillar hangs it drips the virus down on the
leaves below which get eaten by its brothers and sisters
-Then the brothers and sisters get infected

10. • Ants become infected by fungus
• With in a week it enter in a zombie like mood
• The ant is forced to cling onto a leaf and spread the
spores
• It affects the brain and makes it die in an exposed
position it grows out of the head and it releasing spores
out to the air which it rains down to the unsuspecting ant

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15. Standards
• 4d Students know how specialization of cells
in multicellular organisms is usually due to
different patterns of gene expression rather
than to differences in the genes themselves.
• 8b Students know a great diversity of species
increases the chances that at least some
organisms survive major changes in the
environment

16. APA Format
• N/A May6,2011 zombie outbreack N/A
November18,2011
http://www.cdc.gov/about/organization/cio.htm
• N/A The Black Death, 1348," EyeWitness to
History, www.eyewitnesstohistory.com (2001).
the black death the black death
November,192011
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/plague.htm

17. • N/A N/A Zombie caterpillar zombie caterpillar
November8,2011
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/0
9/110908145055.htm
• http://patdollard.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-
content/uploads/2012/04/esq-walking-dead-
walker-zombie-111510-lg.jpg

18. • http://nursingcrib.com/wp-
content/uploads/rabies.jpg?9d7bd4