Diet, Exercise, and Infectious diseases

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The first part of the GCSE B1 science
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Question 1

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Your metabolic rate is the rate of which chemical reactions occur in the body?
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 2

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Your metabolic rate varies with ...
Answer
  • The amount of exercise you do
  • The proportion of muscle to fat in your body
  • What you eat for breakfast
  • Genetic factors

Question 3

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which type of cholesterol is bad for you?
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  • LDL - low-density lipoprotein
  • HDL - high-density lipoprotein

Question 4

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Fill the gap ...... Compared to the mass of carbohydrates, the body needs (fill here) mass of vitamins and mineral ions.
Answer
  • A smaller
  • A greater
  • The same

Question 5

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What is a pathogen?
Answer
  • A disease causing micro-organism
  • A micro-organism
  • Infectious Bacteria

Question 6

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How does infectious bacteria make someone ill? [2 marks]
Answer
  • The bacteria releases toxins
  • they will multiply through out the body
  • they will rapidly multiply through out the body
  • The bacteria injects posion into the cells

Question 7

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Do antibiotics work on viruses?
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 8

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What does MRSA stand for?
Answer
  • Methycillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus
  • Methycillin Resistant staphylococcus Acuteus

Question 9

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What do Painkillers do?
Answer
  • They makes us feel better while our immune system or antibiotics kill the pathogens.
  • They kill the viruses making us ill by surrounding them with walls of Fat.

Question 10

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Fill the gap ... The substances made by white blood cells to kill pathogens are called [fill here].
Answer
  • Antibodies
  • Antitoxins
  • Antibiotics

Question 11

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name 4 ways which the body prevents pathogens from entering the body.
Answer
  • Silia
  • Skin
  • eye lashes
  • Teeth
  • Ear wax
  • Urine

Question 12

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Can viruses be killed by antibiotics? Why?
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  • No, because viruses need to be in inside the human cells to survive, so are inaccessible by the antibiotics
  • Yes, because they live on the outside of the throat and can be easily killed by antibiotics
  • No, because they mutate all the time and the antibiotics will not work on the newly mutated viruses

Question 13

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Do Phagocytes produce antibodies?
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 14

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What cells help fight pathogens
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  • White blood cells
  • Red blood cells

Question 15

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A person can be immunised against a disease by injecting them with an inactive form of a pathogen. Explain how this works? Choose the best answer.
Answer
  • White blood cells produce Antibodies which attack the inactive pathogen. If a active form of that pathogen enters the body the antibodies will remember and re attack quicker.
  • Our body fights the pathogen and remembers it if it comes back in.
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