Biology Unit 5 - Keywords

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Give the diffinition for AGROBACTERIUM
Bacteria that infects plants and causes a growth known as a gall. It can be used by scientists to add genes to plant cells.
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Give the deffinition for ANTIBODIES
Chemicaos produced by white blood cellswhich target particular bacteria and viruses and destroy them. Each pathogen requires specific antibodies to destory it.
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Give the deffinition for ANTICEPTIC
A chemical that kills or destorys micro-organisms
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Give the deffiniton for ANTITOXINS
Chemicals produced by white blood cells that conteract toxins.
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Give the deffiniton for APHID
An insect pest of plants. They drink sap from the plants, reducing the sugar available to the plant. They also carry pathogens that can infect the plant.
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Give the deffiniton for BACTERIA
Single celled organisms that can live inside other living things and causes diseases.
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Give the deffiniton for CHEMICAL BARRIER
A defence mechanism in plants, the plant produces chemicals which destroy the pathogens.
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Give the deffiniton for CHLOROSIS
The yellowing of palnt leaves due to magnesium and therefore chlorophyll deficiency
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Give the deffiniton for COMMUNICABLE DISEASE
A disease that can spread from one living thing to another.
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Give the deffiniton for CULTURE
A pure colony of bacteria grown from a single bacterium.
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Give the deffiniton for DIET
The nutrients consumed by a living thing, an important factor in maintaining good health.
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Give the deffiniton for DISEASE
A malfunction of the body.
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Give the deffiniton for DISENFECTANT
A chemical designed and used for destroying micro-organisms.
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Give the deffiniton for FUNGI
A complex micro-organisms, responsible for a few diseases in animals and plants.
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Give the deffiniton for GONORRHEA
A sexually transmitted disease, caused by infection with bacteria.
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Give the deffiniton for HEALTH
A state of physical and mental well being.
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Give the deffiniton for HIV
A virus that causes AIDs.
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Give the deffiniton for HYGIENE
The use of techniques to reduce or prevent infection by micro-organism.
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Give the deffiniton for IMMUNE SYSTEM
The body's internal defences against infections.
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Give the deffiniton for INCUBATION
Growing micro-organisms at a particular temperature.
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Give the deffiniton for INFECTION
An invasion of the body by a pathogen.
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Give the deffiniton for INTERACTION
The way in which defferent factors together affect health.
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Give the deffiniton for MALARIA
A disease caused by a protist pathogen.
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Give the deffiniton for MEASELS
A viral disease which can be fatal, most children are protected by vaccination.
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Give the deffiniton for MINERAL DEFINCIENCY
The lack of a nutrient or nutrients in the soil a plant is growing in, these usually cause the plants to grow poorly.
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Give the deffiniton for NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASE
A disease caused by lifestyle and/or genetic factors rather than by a pathogen.
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Give the deffiniton for PATHOGEN
A micro-organism capable of causing a disease.
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Give the deffiniton for PHYSICAL BARRIER
A layer of a living that prevents pathogens from gaining entry into the organism.
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Give the deffiniton for PROTIST
A complex, multicellular micro-organism.
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Give the deffiniton for ROSE BLACK SPOT
A fungal disease of plants.
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Give the deffiniton for SALMONELLLA
A bacterial disease, a form of food poisining.
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Give the deffiniton for TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS
A viral disease that destroys the leaves of plants, reducing photosythesis.
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Give the deffiniton for TOXIN
A chemical produced by a bacterium that acts as a poison in an infected host.
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Give the deffiniton for VACCINE
An injectable medicine that triggers an immune responce to prevent infection by a pathogen.
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Give the deffiniton for VECTOR
An animal that helps transmit a pathogen from host to host.
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Give the deffiniton for VIRUS
A non-living pathogen, these infect and destroy living tissue.
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Give the deffiniton for WHITE BLOOD CELL
The blood component responsible for defence against pathogens.
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Chemicaos produced by white blood cellswhich target particular bacteria and viruses and destroy them. Each pathogen requires specific antibodies to destory it.

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Give the deffinition for ANTIBODIES

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A chemical that kills or destorys micro-organisms

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Chemicals produced by white blood cells that conteract toxins.

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An insect pest of plants. They drink sap from the plants, reducing the sugar available to the plant. They also carry pathogens that can infect the plant.

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