Infection and response Flashcards

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1
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Type 1 diabetes

A

High fat diet and sugar

Lack of exercise

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What are communicable diseases caused by ?

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Pathogens , bacteria and viruses

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What are non - communicable diseases caused by ?

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Poor lifestyle , diet and stress

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What are pathogens ?

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Microorganisms that can cause disease , normally in bacteria and viruses

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Bacteria ?

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Some harmless as some live inside your body and reproduce

They produce toxins which is their waste from their chemical processes
The intoxins damage the cells in your tissues

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Viruses ?

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Not living creatures and do not reproduce

They reproduce by infecting host cells and making the cell make new viruses

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How does a virus reproduce ?

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Enters the cell

Viral DNA infected into cell

Viral components assembled

Bursts out of cell killing it

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How are Diseases spread ?

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Animals

Poor sanitation

Food infected

Air droplets

Sexual contact

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9
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Name three viral diseases

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Measles

HIV

Salmonella

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10
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Define protist

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A single celled organism some of which maybe pathogens

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Malaria ?

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Caused by a pathogenic protist called plasmodium
It is spread by a mosquito

symptoms = Fever , sweating , tiredness , red blood cells burst

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