Pandemic - An increase in the occurrence of a particular disease over a very large region, such as a continent or the entire globe, that is greater than what is expected over a given period of time.⏎
Rheumatic Fever - An inflammatory disease that may be caused by an untreated or improperly treated case of strep throat.⏎
Recombinant Technology - The process that allows technicians to create artificial pieces of DNA in which two or more DNA sequences, often from separate organisms, are combined in ways that would not normally occur naturally.⏎
Nanometer - A unit of length equal to one one-billionth (1 x 10-9) of a meter.⏎
Protein - Large molecules composed of one or more chains of amino acids in a specific order determined by the base sequence of nucleotides in the DNA coding.⏎