Lesson 4.7: Vaccines, anti-HIV drug, and HPV

Question 1

Vaccine is for _______ and not ________

Answer 1

prevention
cure

Question 2

How does vaccines work?

Answer 2

it is like a jump start that teaches our immune system to recognize the virus. vaccine is a molecular component of a virus that is introduced in small amount so our body knows how to fight and prevent that disease.

Question 3

How do scientist make vaccines

Answer 3

Inoculate host cells with the virus (chicken eggs)
which provides raw material for the vaccine

Question 4

What is HPV?

Answer 4

Human papilloma virus causes cell to abnormally replicate too much, this causes metastasis

Question 5

HPV is ________ and can infect ____, ____. causes ____, _____, and ____ cancer

Answer 5

sexually transmitted
epithelial, cervical cells
oral, cervical and anal cancer

Question 6

Anti-HIV drugs can block the _____, ______, &_______

Answer 6

viral binding to cell
reverse transcription
integration of viral DNA

Question 7

Antiviral ____ are combinations of different drugs that interfere with one virus

Answer 7

cocktails

Question 8

_______ medicines that can slow down the replication of viruses

target ?

Answer 8

Antiretroviral medicines

they target the coreceptors of the Host T cell to decrease the HIV binding

Question 9

How does HIV drugs can work?

Answer 9

keep viruses out of uninfected cells
inhibit replication of viral genetic information
inhibit viral DNA integration into host cell
inhibit the assembly of new viruses