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What are the two types of pathogen?
Bacteria and Virus
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How does bacteria make us feel ill?
By damaging your cells and producing toxins
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How do viruses work?
Replicate themselves, invade cells and burst.
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How does our body fight disease?
our white blood cells engulf foreign cells and digest them. Produce antitoxins called antibodies. Produce antitoxins.
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What are the pros of vaccinations?
Help control diseases, prevent epidemics (big outbreaks of disease)
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What are the cons of vaccinations?
Dont always work. Bad reaction.
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What does the term "mutate" mean?
To become resistant to something.
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How can we investigate antibiotics by growing microorganisms?
Using agar jelly in a petri dish, the jelly cools using a incoculating loop you transfer the microorganisms to the jelly. they multiply.
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What is the temperature in schools in the labs?
25c
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What did semmelweis discover?
That disease was spreading because of unwashed hands in hospitals.
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