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Bio - Infection
Biology - Infection & Response 2
Question | Answer |
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What does your immune system do? | stops or minimises infection |
What are the 2 types of white blood cell in your immune system? | phagocytes & lymphocytes |
What do antibodies bind to? | specific antigens on pathogens |
What is antibiotic resistance? | when antibiotics stop working because bacteria mutates |
What is Malaria? | a protist |
What are the symptoms of Malaria? | fever, sweats and chills, headaches, vomiting and diarrhoea |
How many people get Malaria every year? | 200 million (up to half die from the disease) |
How is Malaria transmitted? | through mosquito bites |
How is Malaria prevented? | there is no vaccine, people wear insect repellent & sleep under mosquito nets |
How is Malaria treated? | antimalarial drugs |
What are antibiotics? | drugs that slow down or stop the growth of bacteria |
What type of disease can be treated with antibiotics? | bacterial diseases only (not viral ones) |
How do vaccines work? | they put a form of the pathogen into the body which causes the immune system to produce antibodies |
What is phagocytosis? | When a white blood cell engulfs and digests a pathogen |