Fighting Disease Flashcards
Vaccination
Contains dead or inactive forms of a pathogen. This improves the time our immune response takes, it turns faster/quicker
Anti-body
Helps white blood cells engulf pathogens faster. This groups the pathogen cells in 1 group
White Blood Cell
This is a cell that comes form your immune response, it engulfs pathogen cells
Phagocyte
Helps white blood cells engulf pathogens
Lymphocyte
Produces anti-bodies
Anti-viral
Used to fight and kill viral diseasesa
Anti-bodies
Used to fight and kill bacterial diseases
Toxin
Secreted by bacterial diseases, these make you sick
Anti-toxins
Used to fight and kill toxins which make you sick
Bacteria
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.
Viruses
Pathogens that go into your body cells and reproduce like crazy. These can replicate so much that your body cells will burst