Fighting Disease Flashcards

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Vaccination

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Contains dead or inactive forms 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 blood cells engulf pathogens faster. This groups the pathogen cells in 1 group

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White Blood Cell

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

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Phagocyte

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Helps white blood cells engulf 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 diseasesa

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Anti-bodies

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Used to fight and kill bacterial diseases

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Toxin

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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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A member of a large group of unicellular microorganisms that have cell walls but lack organelles and an organized nucleus, including some that can cause disease.

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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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