Fighting Disease

Question 1

What cells fight disease?

Answer 1

White Blood cells

Question 2

What is an antibiotic?

Answer 2

a medicine that destroys mircoorganisms

Question 3

What is an antibody?

Answer 3

Something that fights away the pathogens.

Question 4

What is an antigen?

Answer 4

Something that works with the antibody to get rid of the pathogen and trap them.

Question 5

What is a cilia?

Answer 5

Hair on a cell which traps bacteria.

Question 6

What is a lymphocyte?

Answer 6

Something that produces antibodies which is a type of white blood cell.

Question 7

What is a vaccination?

Answer 7

You are injected with a weak, dead or inactive form of a pathogen.

Question 8

Mucus

Answer 8

Traps micro-organisms.

Question 9

Mutation

Answer 9

The changing of a gene.

Question 10

Pandemic

Answer 10

A worldwide spread.

Question 11

Pathogen

Answer 11

Is a micro-organisms that causes disease.

Question 12

Phagocyte

Answer 12

Engulf the pathogen.

Question 13

Semmelweiss

Answer 13

Told doctors to wash their hands in antiseptic before moving onto other patients.

Question 14

Epidemic

Answer 14

Local spread in one country.

Question 15

Antiviral

Answer 15

Effective against viruses.

Question 16

Inhibition zone

Answer 16

The clear area that is present.

Question 17

Communicable disease

Answer 17

Can be spread from person to person.

Question 18

Bacteria

Answer 18

Produce toxins or poison, that make us ill

Question 19

What do antibiotics contain to kill bacteria?

Answer 19

Anti-toxins.

Question 20

What do painkillers do?

Answer 20

They relive symptoms for a period of time.

Question 21

Aseptic technique

Answer 21

Heat inoculating loop to destroy any micro-organisms that may be on the loop. We then leave it to cool down because if we take a sample to soon it will destroy the micro-organisms.