Created by Ava Saunders
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Question | Answer |
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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