Unit 6 Vocab Flashcards
Cell mediated immunity
doesn’t use antibodies, uses macrophages
Cyclic amp
messenger to hormones and neurotransmitter
Cytotoxic T cells
Respond to viruses
Helper T cell
Stimulates killer T cell
B cell
Responsible for hormonal immunity
Lytic cycle
Reproduction of viruses who then burst out of host cell
Lysogenic cycle
bacteriophage incorporated into bacterium genome
Negative feedback
Product stops continued output
Phosphorylation cascade
Sequence of signaling pathways
Positive feedbaclk
Product enhances future output
Retrovirus
Inserts it’s RNA into DNA of the cell to change the cells genome
Reverse transcriptase
transcribed RNA to DNA
Signal transduction
Extracellular messenger binds to surface of cell and message is translated