11B2

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Why can't we treat viruses with antibiotics?
Would kill healthy tissues
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What is a Eukaryotic organism?
Has a nucleus e.g virus
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what is a Prokaryotic organism?
Has no nucleus e.g Bacteria
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What is a placebo drug?
A test group where the subject does not know what they are receiving (Removes the Placebo effect)
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What is a doube-blind trial?
Neither subject nor researchers know what drug they have received (removes bias)
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What is the Placebo effect?
People thinking they are meant to get better so physiologically think they are
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What are phagocytes?
Type of white blood cell that ingests harmful pathogens
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Name 3 first lines of defence in the immune system
Skin, Mucus, Nasal Hair
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What are platelets?
cells fragments used to clot open wounds
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What is the binomial system to class animals?
Classes animals on [Genus] then [Species]
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What was carl woese's sytem?
divides cellular life forms into archaea, bacteria, and eukaryote DOMAINS
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Why did classification change?
Microscopes allowed us to see cells with and without a necleus
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What are antigens and why are they specific?
Antigens induce a immune system response to disease. They are developed specially for each individual disease type as of contact.
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What are antitoxins?
An antibody which sticks to and neutralises harmful toxins made from pathogens
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Key difference of bacteria and a virus (besides necleus)
Virus' hijacks cells DNA (why so dangerous) Bacteria lives of our bodies resources
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What are antibodies?
Y-Shaped proteins that cling on to pathogens to sterilize or neutralise them
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