Fighting Disease Flashcards

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Vaccination

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Contains dead / inactive or weak form of a pathogen. This improves the time our immune response takes, it turns faster/quicker.

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Anti-Body

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Helps white bloods cells engulf pathogens faster. This groups the pathogen cells together in 1 group

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White Blood Cell

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This is a cell that comes from your immune response, it engulfs pathogen cells

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Phagocyte

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Helps white blood cells engulfs pathogens.

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Lymphocyte

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Produces anti-bodies

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Anti-Viral

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Used to fight and kill viral diseases

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Anti-Biotic

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Used to fight and kill bacterial diseases

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Toxins

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Secreted by bacterial diseases, these make you sick.

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Anti-Toxins

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Used to fight and kill toxins which make you sick

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Bacteria

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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.

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Viruses

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Pathogens that go into your body cells and reproduce like crazy. These can replicate so much that your body cells will burst.

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