Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Fighting Disease
- pathogens
- bacteria
- small living cells
- damage cells
- produce toxins
- viruses
- not cells
- replicate by
invading cells
- produce copies of themselves and burst
- your defence system
- skin, hair, mucus
- stops microorganisms getting in
- cuts/platelets
- help blood clot to seal wounds
- immune system
- white blood cells
- travel around in blood patrolling for microbes
- consume microbes
- produce anitbodies (proteins) to kill antigens
- produce antitoxins produced by bacteria