Infection + Response P1

Question 1

Anaesthetic

Answer 1

A drug that stops all pain sensation and can be local or general.

Question 2

Antibiotic

Answer 2

A group of medicines

Question 3

Antigen

Answer 3

A protein on the surface of a pathogen that your antibodies can recognize as foreign.

Question 4

Antiseptic

Answer 4

A substance applied to the skin or another surface to destroy pathogens.

Question 5

Antitoxin

Answer 5

A protein produced by your body to neutralise harmful toxins produced by pathogens.

Question 6

Binary Fission

Answer 6

How bacteria reproduces.

Question 7

Cilia

Answer 7

Tiny hair like projections from ciliated cells that waft mucus out of the gas exchange system.

Question 8

Communicable

Answer 8

A disease which can be transmitted from one organism to another.

Question 9

Double blind trial

Answer 9

A medical experiment in which the patients and doctors do not know who has been given the drug and who has been given a placebo.

Question 10

Efficacy

Answer 10

How effective a drug is

Question 11

Infectious

Answer 11

A pathogen that can easily be transmitted

Question 12

Insecticide

Answer 12

A chemical that kills insects.

Question 13

Lysozymes

Answer 13

Antibacterial enzymes found in your tears to prevent eye infections.

Question 14

Malaria

Type of pathogen + how it is spread

Answer 14

Protist
Spread via a vector (mosquitos)

Question 15

Placebo

Answer 15

A ‘fake’ pill or injection which contains no active substances and has only physiological effects.

Question 16

Vaccine

Answer 16

A medicine containing antigens from a dead or innactive pathogen that triggers a low level immune response.

Question 17

Vector

Answer 17

An animal that spreads a communicable disease.

Question 18

What are the 4 types of pathogen?

Answer 18

• Fungi
• Protist
• Virus
• Bacteria

Question 19

How do viruses cause harm to the body?

Answer 19

They enter a healthy cell, take control of it and make them burst. (Airborne)

Question 20

What do bacteria do?

Answer 20

• Release toxins
• Reproduce by binary fission

Question 21

Measles

Symptoms + type of pathogen

Answer 21

• Cause a rash/fever
• Virus

Question 22

Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV)

Symptoms, type of pathogen + how it is treated

Answer 22

• Plant discolouration
• Virus
• Remove infected leaves

Question 23

HIV

Symptoms, risks, type of pathogen, how to treat it

Answer 23

• Fatigue
• If left untreated, it can lead to AIDs
• Virus
• Antiretroviral drugs

Anti - Against
Retro - Fashion movement
Viral - Virus

Question 24

Examples of bacterial diseases

Answer 24

• Gonorrhea
• Salmonella

Question 25

Rose black spot | Type of pathogen

Answer 25

Fungal

Question 26

White blood cells - What do they do?

Answer 26

- In the blood - Phagocytosis - engulf pathogens - Produce antibodies + antitoxins

Question 27

How can diseases be spread? | 7

Answer 27

- Vectors e.g. mosquitos - Through air - Through contaminated water - Droplets e.g. coughs + sneezes - Contact - Unpprotected sex - Food

Question 28

Who discovered penecillin?

Answer 28

Alexander Flemming