Fighting Disease Flashcards
Vaccination
Contains dead / inactive or weak form of a pathogen. This improves the time our immune response takes, it turns faster/quicker.
Anti-Body
Helps white bloods cells engulf pathogens faster. This groups the pathogen cells together in 1 group
White Blood Cell
This is a cell that comes from your immune response, it engulfs pathogen cells
Phagocyte
Helps white blood cells engulfs pathogens.
Lymphocyte
Produces anti-bodies
Anti-Viral
Used to fight and kill viral diseases
Anti-Biotic
Used to fight and kill bacterial diseases
Toxins
Secreted by bacterial diseases, these make you sick.
Anti-Toxins
Used to fight and kill toxins which make you sick
Bacteria
Bacteria constitute a large domain of prokaryotic microorganisms. Typically a few micrometers in length, bacteria have a number of shapes, ranging from spheres to rods and spirals.
Viruses
Pathogens that go into your body cells and reproduce like crazy. These can replicate so much that your body cells will burst.