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Flashcards by Adam Collinge, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Adam Collinge
over 10 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| How do bacteria make you feel ill? | Damaging your cells Producing toxins |
| How do viruses make you ill? | They invade your cells and use the cells machinery to replicate themselves. This causes the cell to burst, releasing new viruses. |
| What are the three preliminary defenses of the body? | Skin, hair and mucus |
| List the ways in which white blood cells destroy microbes. | Consuming them Producing antibodies Producing antitoxins |
| State how antibodies work. | The white blood cells will start to produce antibodies for a specific antigen. Antibodies are then rapidly produced and carried around the body. Finally the white blood cell remembers the antibody it just made |
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