Fighting disease

Question 1

roughly, how big are bacterium

Answer 1

1/100th of your body cells

Question 2

How do bacterium make you ill

Answer 2

1) . they damage your cells

2) . they produce toxins

Question 3

how big are viruses

Answer 3

1/100th size of a bacterium

Question 4

how do viruses replicate them selves

Answer 4

they invade your cells and produce many copies of them selves using the cells’. the cell wall will usually burst, releasing all the new viruses. this cell damage is what makes you feel ill.

Question 5

how is your respiratory tract adapted to prevent microbes from entering your body

Answer 5

it has mucus to trap the microbes and hairs to push it up the respiratory tract