Biology 3 (Chapter 11 and 12) Flashcards
Virus either contain DNA or RNA but….
Not Both
Significant health challenges facing the world today
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
Infection By ______________ can cause aids
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
HIV, Measles, Coronavirus are
Retroviruses
Retroviruses Copies Its RNA and DNA using
Reverse Transcriptase
2014, 28,637 cases, 11,000 deaths, bats
Ebola
1999-2012, 44,000 cases, mosquito
West Nile
2017, 120 Million in brazil, 32 million in Mexico, 29.5 million in columbia, mosquitoes
Zika Virus
2003, Bats, China and Toronto, 8,098 cases world wide
Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
Camels, Saudi Arabia in 2012, 2,442 cases, only 2 imported cases in USA
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)
Bats, Wuhan, China Dec 2019, 7.5 Million cases worldwide as of 6-12-2020
COVID-19 (Corona Virus)
Traditional vaccine development injects a _____ or _____ “____” virus in to the body to coax the body in to producing ______ to fight it. The _____ vaccine mechanism of action is different
Dead, weakened, “live attenuated”, antibodies, mRNA
In ________ cells become specialized in Structure and Function
Cellular Differentiation
When are certain genes turned on and off ?
Gene regulation
Total potential =
Totipotent
Partially developed
(Blastocyst-100 cells)
Pluripotent
Adult stem cells =
Differentiated
Differentiated cells….
- All contain a complete genome,
- have potential to express all of organisms genes,
- have ability to develop into a whole new organism
Regeneration is when…
Regrowth of lost body parts in animals