Applied Single Science revision - fighting disease

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  • Created on: 06-02-23 16:39
What is a microbe that causes disease?
pathogen
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Which blood cells fight microbes?
White blood cells
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What is an antigen?
Protein on the surface of a pathogen
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What is an antibody?
A protein that binds to pathogens
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White blood cells may....
ingest pathogens
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White blood cells may
produce antibodies
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white blood cells may
produce anti toxins
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Humans are vaccinated against
measles meningitis polio
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Vaccinations
immunise you to disease
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Name three types of microbe
virus bacteria fungi
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Testing patients, cleaning and sanitising, good hygiene are all ways of
reducing spread of mrsa
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a dead, inactive form of a pathogen is used as a
vaccination
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when vaccinated, the immune system learns to
produce antibodies
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The name of a white blood cell that fights disease is a
lymphocyte
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what is the first line of body defence?
The skin
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When the skin is broken, platelets in the blood will...
clot
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Some bacteria have mutated to be
antibiotic resistant
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Which blood cells fight microbes?

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White blood cells

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What is an antigen?

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What is an antibody?

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White blood cells may....

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