Immunity

Question 1

Communicable disease

Answer 1

One that can be passed from one organism to another

Question 2

Non-communicable disease

Answer 2

One that is not passed from one organism to another

Question 3

Health

Answer 3

Being free from communicable and non-communicable disease

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What the NHS spends money on

Answer 4

• salary doctors, nurses and other staff
• upkeep of hospitals
• drugs and medicines used to treat patients

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What causes communicable disease

Answer 5

Very small living organisms - microorganisms or microbes

Question 6

Why is health important

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• important to society because :
• unhealthy people cannot work
• unhealthy people need care

Question 7

What does the NHS spend billions of pounds on each year?

Answer 7

• Keeping people healthy as possible
• treating and looking after the ill

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What does the NHS spend money on?

Answer 8

• salaries of doctors, nurses and other staff 👩‍⚕️ 🧑‍⚕️ 🧹
• upkeep of hospitals 🏥 🧹
• drugs and medicines used to treat people 💊

Question 9

Microorganism

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Very small living organisms

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Three main types of microbes which cause infection

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• bacteria
• viruses
• fungi

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microorganisms which cause disease

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Pathogens

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Communicable disease

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One which can be passed from one organism (person) to another

Question 13

Non-communicable disease

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One that is not passed from one organism to another

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Health

Answer 14

Being free from communicable and non-communicable disease

Question 15

droplet infection

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• airborne
• Spray of moisture and particles spreading through air when sneeze or cough

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The skin as a body defence

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Acts as excellent barrier to micro organisms

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Mucus membranes as bodily defence

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• Openings in body such as nose 👃 and respiratory system 🫁 protected by mucous membranes
• trap microorganisms and prevent them going any further
• membranes covered in ciliated epithelium cells

Question 18

Blood clotting as bodily defence

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• clot prevents more blood escaping
• also acts as barrier against infection

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Purpose of body defences

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• try to prevent microorganisms getting into body

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What happens if microorganisms enter the body?

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Usually combatted by the blood system

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Antigen

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Chemicals on surface of invading microorganisms that the body can recognise as being foreign

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What do antigens cause the body to do?

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Cause special white blood cells called lymphocytes to produce antibodies

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Antibodies

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• complementary shape to antigens on microbes
• join w/ antigens (jigsaw)
• cause them to clump together
• once clumped easily engulfed and digested by phagocytes

Question 24

Pathogen

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• Bacteria
• viruses
• fungi

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Phagocyte

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• type of white blood cell
• move around in blood
• EITHER destroy microorganisms 🦠 trapped by antibodies
• OR destroy directly without antibody action

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PHAGOCYTOSIS

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• phagocytes surround microorganisms and engulf them
• eventually enzymes inside phagocyte digest microorganisms and destroy it

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Primary response

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Infected individual is ill for a few days before antibody numbers are high enough to provide immunity

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What is a typical response to being infected by a bacterium or virus?

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Antigen/ antibody reaction

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Memory lymphocytes

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• made once body is infected w/ disease
• Produce antibodies if infection by same type of microorganism happens again
• ⬆️ fast 🏃‍♀️💨 - prevent individual catching same disease again

Question 30

Secondary response

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• memory lymphocytes produce antibodies if infection by same type of microorganism happens again
• ⬆️ fast 🏃‍♀️💨 - prevent individual catching same disease again
• much higher level of antibodies

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What occurs during secondary response?

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• We are often unaware
• no symptoms 🚫🤒
• rapid antibody production

Question 32

Immunity

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• Protected against particular infection / disease
• antibody levels high enough to combat microorganism

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Two types of immunity

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• active
• passife

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Active immunity

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• slow increase in antibodies (during primary response)
• antibody levels remain high for a long time due to memory lymphocytes

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Passive immunity

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• RAPID increase in antibodies into the blood
• antibody levels fall quickly (as no memory lymphocytes present)

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Sources of passive immunity

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• pharm. comps
• injected into body 💉
• breast milk 🥛
• across placenta ➡️ baby 👶

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Active immunity

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ACTIVE : body produces antibodies in to response to infection
(Body is ACTIVELY making then)

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Passive immunity

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Antibodies injected into body or from mother to baby in placenta/ breast milk
(The person is being “passed” them)