Diseases and Defence

Question 1

What are the three types of microbes?

Answer 1

Bacteria, Fungi and Viruses

Question 2

What are all three microbes?

Answer 2

Pathogens

Question 3

What are Pathogens?

Answer 3

Pathogens are external to the body and cause a response

Question 4

What responses do pathogens create?

Answer 4

Disease
Infection
Change in body system

Question 5

Where can microbes come in through?

Answer 5

Eyes
Mouth
Nose
Cuts
Or absorption through skin (like radiation)

Question 6

What helps defend us against microbes?

Answer 6

Hair
Tears
Snot
Ear Wax
Skin
Stomach Acid

Question 7

What is bacteria?

Answer 7

A single celled organism

Question 8

How does bacteria reproduce?

Answer 8

They are asexual and copy themselves

Question 9

What does bacteria like?

Answer 9

Bacteria likes it to be damp and dark

Question 10

What can treat bacteria (infections)?

Answer 10

Medicines / Anti biotics

Question 11

What is Fungi

Answer 11

Fungi is Multi-celled

Question 12

Examples of fungi

Answer 12

Mold
Mushrooms
Other plant like things

Question 13

What can fungi cause

Answer 13

Liden

Athletes foot

Question 14

What can you say about the size of viruses?

Answer 14

They are the smallest of the three microbes

Question 15

How do viruses reproduce?

Answer 15

They need a host inside that host they copy themselves

Question 16

What three things defend you?

Answer 16

White Blood Cells
Red Blood Cells
Platelets

Question 17

Do do white blood cells do?

Answer 17

Defence

Question 18

What do red blood cells do?

Answer 18

Carry Oxygen

Question 19

Platelets

Answer 19

H2O

Question 20

How do white blood cells defend you?

Answer 20

Direct Attack - absorb + destroy
Anti toxins
Anti bodies - clump pathogens together

Question 21

What do vaccines grant you?

Answer 21

Immunity from certain diseases

Question 22

What are the two types of vaccine?

Answer 22

Natural

Artificial