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why are cold temperatures fatal human to organisms

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Cold and freezing temperatures change concentrations of solutes and cause ice crystals to form, killing cells

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why are hot temperature harmful to organisms

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  • proteins begin to denatures
    -enzymes begin to denature
    -breaking their 3^o structure
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what happens when you freeze a cell

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· Ice forms outside of the cell (this can physically disrupt the cell, the phospholipid layer)
· Liquid water is lost from the cell to make up from the lack of liquid water outside of the cell
This tends to cause cells to die

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how ca animals live in conditions where the tempreature is below 0 degrees

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  • Anti-freeze proteins- organism makes these protein to interreact with the ice crystals to prevent them from getting too big, helps maintain water within the cell
    Have lots of solutes- serve to lower the temperature of water from freezing (about -2-3 degrees
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how can taq polymerase live in hot temperatures

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· Thermus aquaticus grows best at 65-70 degrees
· Enzymes optimised to function best at higher temperatures
DNA polymerase is not denatured at 95 degrees (it is stable at 94 degrees), stable and functional

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what is taq polymerase used for

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PCR

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what are the steps for PCR

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  1. Denature DNA - DNA is denatured to break the hydrogen bonds (94 degrees)
  2. Anneal the new DNA- primers are added to the DNAs (54 degrees)
  3. Extend- Taq polymerase synthesis a complimentary DNA molecule (72 degrees)
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what is an exotherm

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a type or organism that depends on the environment for their heat source (if its hot they will get hot and if it is cold they will be cold)

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what is an endotherm

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a type of organism that varys metabolic heat production, compensating for heat loss to the environment

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what are disadvantages of being an endotherm

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  • Requires more food consumptions
  • Inefficient energy use (ion leakage across membranes is less effective than in exotherms
    -Energy spend addressing this causes an increases in heat
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what are the benefits of being endotherm

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  • Presence in thermal niches inaccessible to exotherms (independence from environmental temp)
    • They can live in different environments
    • Higher muscle power and sustained activity
      -Protects against infection and disease (internal environment tends to be higher then the living environment for pathogenic bacteria)
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what is allen’s rule

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· A rule to that is used to be able to determine the environment of an organism
· It states that animals with smaller ears live in cooler environments whereas animals with larger ears live in warmer climates

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what is an example of allens rule

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· Ears become smaller and face become smaller to help conserve body heat
- The big ears are a way to radiate heat and loss heat more efficiently

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what is bergmanns rule

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· A rule to that is used to be able to determine the environment of an organism
It states that animals with smaller ears live in cooler environments whereas animals with larger ears live in warmer climates

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what is an example of allens rule

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peguims become larger as you get closer to the poles
Therefore smaller animals live near the equator

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is the global temperature increase bad for humans

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yes, because Increasing the average temperature of the planet brings microbes to temperatures more closely aligned to ours and therefore this means pathogenic bacteria may be able to survive in our body

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why is increasing CO2 bad for organisms

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The increase in CO2 is happening at a rate that animals, plants, and microbes cannot keep up with, posing a big challenge.

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what are 2 plant mechanisms for the intake of CO2

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-C4 pathway and the CAM pathway

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where are C4 plants usually located

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hot and dry places

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how is water efficiency in C4 plants

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-close stomata during the day
- reduced water loss through transpiration
-co2 is fixed into bundle sheath cells
-minimising water loss

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how is photorespiration decreased in C4 plants

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  • CO2 is concentrated in the bundle sheath cells which maintains a high concentration of Co2- this reduced the likelihood of rubisco favouring oxygen and losing the plant energy
    • Allow them to loss less energy as ATP and NADPH are not used in energy loss like photorespiration
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what is the problem with rubisco

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  • As temperature increases rubisco finds it hard to distinguish between Co2 and O2
    • Increases photorespiration
      Increases energy loss
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what are the stages that occur in the mesophyll cells in C4 plants

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  • CO2 enters through the stomata into the mesophyll cell
    • CO2 is converted into HCO3- (bicarbonate) which is catalysed by carbonic anhydrase (CA)

PEP carboxylase converts bicarbonate into oxaloacetate (OAA) which is then transported into the bundle sheath cells

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what happens in the bundle sheath cell in C4 plants

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  • OAA is transported into the bundle sheath cell
    • OAA is then decarboxylated releases CO2 at rubisco
    • this initiated the calvin cycle

A three carbon molecule (3-PGA) is transported into the mesophyll cell

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what is the CAM Process

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-co2 intake
-co2 concersion
-storage
-decarboxylation
-calvin cycle

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what happens in the CO2 intake stage for CAM plants, and what is the effect (time of day and result)

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  • Stomata opens during the night to allow CO2 to enter the cell
    This means less water escapes as it is colder during the night
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what happens in the CO2 conversion stage for cam plants

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  • CO2 is then converted into a 4 carbon molecule by the enzyme PEPC
    This occurs in the mesophyll cells
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what happens in the storgae stage for cam

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► Storage
- CO2 is stored as a C4 acid in the vacuole in the mesophyll cell
This allows the plant to retain a high concentration of carbon until the day

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what happens in the CO2 conversion stage for cam plants

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  • CO2 is then converted into a 4 carbon molecule by the enzyme PEPC
    This occurs in the mesophyll cells
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what happens in the CO2 conversion stage for cam plants

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  • CO2 is then converted into a 4 carbon molecule by the enzyme PEPC
    This occurs in the mesophyll cells
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what happens in the decarboylation stage for cam plants

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  • During the day the c4 molecule is decarboxylated which released CO2 and a C3 acid molecule
    The C3 acid molecule is used to then be converted into starch
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what is the calvin cycle

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process where CO2 is used to make glucose through
-carbon fixation
-reduction
-regeneration

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what is a pathogen

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a disease causing microorganism

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what is a disease

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any condition which the normal structure or function of the body is damaged or impaired

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what are the 3 stages of the immune system

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  1. recognition
  2. activation
  3. effector stage
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what happens in step 1- recognition

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a pathogen is reconsided as non self by by specialised receptors present in th cell

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what are the receptors called what recognize self and non self antigens

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they are called pattern recognition receptors (PRR receptors)

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what are the 2 locations of the PRRs

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  1. cytoplasm
  2. plasma membrane
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where are TLRs found (toll like receptors)

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in the cell membrane

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what do TLRs detect

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MAMPs and DAMPs

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what is a MAMP

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microbial associated molecular pattern

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what organism express MAMPs

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virus
bacteria
paracites

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what molecules can MAMPs be

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carbohydrates, poplypeptides or nucleic acids

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what are DAMPs

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damages associated molecular patterns

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what dio DAMPs signal

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-signal damgae to a cell when a pathogen damages it
-Molecules released by stressed, dead or dying cells, signals of tissue damage

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what is a PAMP

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Pathogen associated molecular pattens

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how does a PAMP arise

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through the addition of a MAMP and DAMP

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what happens when a PRR senors a PAMP

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  1. Secretion of defensive or antimicrobial peptides
    1. Production of pro-inflammatory cytokines
    2. Activation of compliment system
    3. Phagocytosis
      - All of these steps are non specific
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what are defensins

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  • an ancient defense mechanism where positively charged polypeptides disrupt the phospholipid bilayer of a pathogen killing the pathogen
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how do defensins work

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The positive defensin (positive polypeptide) and negative phosphate (phosphate head) collide due to the opposite charges

51
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what is phagocytosis

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the process why which a cell engulfs large particles in a phagocytic vacuole (phagosome) and engulfs them

52
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when does phagocytosis occur

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Once the pathogen have been disrupted or identified they must be removed from the cell

53
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what cells undergo phagocytosis

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dendritics cells
macrophages

54
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what occurs after phagocytosis

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  1. more immune cells come to the site
  2. antigen is presented to b and t cells (adaptive immunity)
55
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where do b cells mature

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in the bone marrow

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what are 2 types of b cells

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  • plasma cells
  • b memory cells
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where are t cells matured

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in the thymus

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what are the 3 types of t cells

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CT t cells
TH cells
t memory cells

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what is the process the production of t cells

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  • Phagocyte (macrophage or dendrtic cell) present antigen to the t cell- this causes the t cell to become activated
  • Then the t cell will proliferate (make lots of them)
  • Differentiate into
    • CTs- kill the pathogen
      -Th cell- release cytokines that signal to other immune cells to kill the pathogen
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what is the process of producing b cells

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-phagocyte presents antigen to naive b cells
- the antigen is broken down into polypeptides and is displayed on the surface of the naive b cell through a MHC 11
- a T helper cell then binds to the polypeptide and the the naive b cell becomes activated
- this causes the b cell to proliferate and undergo cell division
-this produces memory b cells and plasma cells which secrete antibodies

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what genes in the heavy chain code for antibodies

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V region
J region
and the D region

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how do antibodies change to be specific to antibody

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through VDJ recombination

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what is the result of VDJ recombination

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diversity of antibodies

64
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how do plant deal with pathogens

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-secrete toxic molecules to program cell death
- have structural barriers- bark and cell walls

65
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how many types of organisms cause disease

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10

66
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what are virus

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us
· Infectious agent
· Not cellular
· Cannot replicated by itself
· Needs a host cell to make copies of itself
· Comprised of a genome, protein and sometimes a membrane
· No ribosomes, organelles, energy metabolism
· They are very small (nm)
Most viruses are plant pathogens

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what are some viral dieases

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HIV
MERS
COVID19

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why are virus hard to treat

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· Virus can be difficult to treat because the use of the host cellular machinery for replication

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how do pathogens cause harm to hosts

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  1. Consumption
    1. Grows in the host
    2. Invades the hosts immune system and defence
    3. Damage the host - taking away resources, physically destroying cells
      Leave the host and start the circle again
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what is mutalism

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When host and microbe both benefit off each other

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what is commensalism

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Causes no harm or no benefit to either the host or microbe

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what is parasitism

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When the microbe benefits to the expense of the host, often the cause for pathogens

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what is a primary pathogen

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Cause overt, immediate disease in most healthy people

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what is an oppotunistic pathogen

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Cause disease only if immune system is weakened

75
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what happens to the host if a pathogen is virulent

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-ususally more danagerous as the pathogen will not be spread because the host is in bed

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what is the red queen hypothesis

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· Host and pathogens are constantly trying to outsmart each other
· One thrives at the expense of the other
The host are interested in defending against the pathogen

Their interests are endless as they both evolve to try and avoid disease

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how do bacteria become resistant to antibiotics

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· Bacteria have specific genes to break down antibiotics, often carried on small pieces of DNA (plasmids)
· These plasmids or fragments of DNA can be moved between species
· This is down through horizontal gene transfer
Therefore if a plasmid if resistance it can be shared really easily between bacteria

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how do antimicrobial chemicals work

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-work by inhibiting the microbes biochemical processes, thereby stopping the spread of the pathogen in the host

79
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what are the 3 types of cancer

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  • Hereditary cancers
  • Sporadic (non hereditary cancers
    -Transmissible cancers
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what is a tumour

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· A tumour is a mass of cells

81
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what is a bengin tumour

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· Benign tumours do not have the ability to invade other tissues

a mass of cells that do not have the ability to invade other cells

82
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how are herditary cancer passed on

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Genes can be inherited that are cancerous which is passed onto the new generation

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what are the 2 types of cancer genes

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  1. Tumour suppressor genes
    2. Dominate oncogenes
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what do tumour suppressor genes do

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helps control cell growth

85
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what does a dominate mutation do

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they gain a function

86
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what does a recessive mutation do

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loss a function

87
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proto-oncogenes generally become….

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oncogenes in a dominant manner

88
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do tumour suppressors have roles in cell cycle, and how

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yes, they are involved in the DNA damage detection

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what is simulated when DNA damage is detected

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tumour suppressor stimulates the production of p21

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what does p21 do

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binds to G1 CDKs which prevent their activation and stops the cell cycle

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what is one type of recessive tumour suppressor

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p53

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what does p53 do

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sensors DNA damage

93
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what happens with the p53 in 50% of all cancer

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it gets mutated and losses its function

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what happens when p53 is working normally

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  • DNA is damaged and p53 is activated and binds to area
    • Cell halts at g1 checkpoint
    • DNA repair is activated and apoptosis is triggered if not repairable
    • Cells don’t pass on damaged DNA
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what happens when p53 is not working properly

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  • DNA is damaged and cannot bind to area
    • Cell cycle is progessed (this is bad)
      Damaged DNA (mutations) are passed on
96
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what is RAS

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a proto-oncogene that is mutated in many cancers

  • responsible for cell division and proliferation
97
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what happens when RAS is not cancerous

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normal cell division and proliferation as
- growth factor receptor binds onto ras

98
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what happens when RAS is cancerous

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-RAS is always on and is dividing cells and proliferating them even when the grow receptor is not binded
- this is cancerous (cell growth)

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what is peto’s paradox

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large animals are made up of lots of cells and therefore should get cancer more than smaller organisms but this is not true

100
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why dont elephants get cancer as much as mice

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because they have 20 copies of the p53 gene, therefore it is much more liekly that a mutation will damage 2 alleles then all 40 alleles

101
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what is an example of a transmissable cancer

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tasmanian devils cancer which killed up to 80% of all devils

102
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how did the devils get the cancer

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· Most likely spread between animals biting each other faces during fighting
· The microbes invade the hosts immune system
· These microbes infect cells and hijack the cellular machinery causing cells to proliferate and become cancerous

103
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why does cancer affect older generations

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Because developing cancer requires accumulating multiple mutations which takes time

104
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is always cancer genetic

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no, there are environmental factors that can cause cancer like smoking

105
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why is burning crops good

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thins out the young shrubs and trees while preserving the canopy and encourages growth of new grass

106
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what is domestication

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involes one species that controls the reproduction and breeding of second species

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