Biology Key Terms

Pregunta	Respuesta
Antigens	Antigens are produced by pathogens and they are cell markers that the body can recognise as foreign.
Antibodies	Antibodies are produced by our body in response to a disease.
Placebo	A dummy medication that looks exactly like the real medication but isnt.
Blind Trails	The patient doesn't know whether they are taking a placebo but the doctor does, this could introduce a bais.
Double-blind trials	Both the patient and the doctor do not know whether the drug is a placebo or not.
Placebo Effect	Where you think your getting better so you get better.
Toxicity	How harmful something is.
Efficacy	Whether something ,eg a drug, works or not.
Mitosis	A type of cell division used for growth and repair. Before the cell divides, new chromosomes are made and the chromosomes are copied.
Cancer	Caner is uncontrollable cell division
Stem cell	A stem cell is an unspecialised cell that can differentiate into any type of cell to do a specific function.
Vector	something that carries a disease

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