Question | Answer |
Cell membrane | Controls what goes in and out of the cell |
Cytoplasm | Where chemical reactions take place in order for the cell to stay alive. |
Nucleus | Contains genes which contain the information on making new cell parts. |
Immune system | Protects our body's from invasion of illness |
Foreign | Something our body isn't familiar with |
Rejected | Rejects disease/ Throws away unwanted things |
White blood cells | Protects us from disease |
Antibodies | Protein produced by white blood cells to kill disease |
Organism | An individual animal, plant or single celled life form |
Mircroorganism | Microscopic organism especially a bacterium, virus or fungus |
Lymphocyte | Produce antibodies that attach to the antigens on a foreign substance. These antibodies help destroy the foreign substance |
Phagocyte | Wrap themselves around the foreign substance and destroy it using chemicals inside the cytoplasm |
Parasite | an organism that lives in or on another organism and benefits from it, it causes harm to its 'host' |
Immunosuppressants | Given to someone having a transplant to protect them. It weakens the immune system to lower the body's ability to reject a transplanted organ. |
Zone of influence | Area of bacteria that is cleared by an anti- bacterial |
Drip | An apparatus that passes fluids, nutrients or drugs into a patients body |
Spleen | filters blood and creates new blood cells |
Red blood cells | Transport oxygen around body |
Antigen | Substance that causes your immune system to produce antibodies |
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