3 - infestion and response Flashcards
protists
- eukaryotes
- single cells
how can pathogens be spread
water
air
dircet contact
3 viral diseases
measles
HIV
TMV
mealses
- spread through sneezing - droplets
- skin rash /fever
- most ppl vaccinated tho
HIV
- spread through sex or exchanging body fluids - needles
- flu-like symptoms
- antiretroviral drugs
TMV
tobacco mosaic virus
- affects plants/tomatoes
- causes discolouration on leaves - cant photosynthesis - stunted growth
about a fungal disease - what, cause, spread, solution
rose black spot
- purple/black spots on a rose leaf - turn yellow and drop off
- less photosynthesis - stunted growth
- spread through water or wind
- treated with fungicides or stripping infected leaves
disease caused by protist
- malaria
- mosquitoes - vector and inserts protist into blood vessles
- causes fevers - fatal
- destroy breeding sites / insecticides/mosquito nets
2 bacterial diseases
salmonella
gonorrhoea
salmonella
- its a bacteria that causes food poisoning - vomit/diarrhoea/ fever/cramps
- uncooked chicken
- chickens and turkeys have a vaccination in the uk
gonorrhoea
- STD
- pain when peeing/yellow discharge from vagina /penis
- treated with penicillin- but now its resistant
- prevent - condom - barrier
how to prevent the spread of dieases
- hygienic
- vaccines
- isolate infected person
destroy vector
features of the body’s defence system
- skin - barrier to pathogens
- hairs and mucus - trap pathogens
- trachea and bronchi lined with CILIA - waft mucus
- stomach - hydrochloric acid - kills pathogens
3 steps - immune system response
- WBC engulf foreign cell and digest them - PHAGOCYTOSIS
- WBC produces antibodies that bind to specific antigen - b lymphocytes and destroys
- now you are immune and you body will recognise if it ever comes again
vaccines
- inject dead/inactive pathogens that carry antigens causing your WBCs to produce antibodies to attack them
pros and cons to vaccines
PROS
- illiminates diseases - eg smallpox
- helps epidemics
CONS
- dont walways work
- side effects - rashes /reactions
relieving symptoms drugs
- painkillers
cure the problem drugs - anitbiotics
antibiotics
- only kill infections caused by bacteria
- kill bacteria causing the problem without killing your own body cells
- don’t destroy viruses bc they reproduce using your body cells
drugs that come from plants
aspirin - willow
digitalis - foxgloves
stages in drug testing
- test on human cells and tissue
- live animals - efficacy/toxicity/dosage
- 2 Dif live mammals - cruel???
- healthy volunteers - side effects? optimum dosage
- done - unwell ppl
whats double blind testing
- one patient given real drug
- one patient given placebo
- patients don’t know who and doctor doesn’t either
what are monoclonal antibodies
lots of identical clones of a B - lymphocyte (WBC) which bind to one specific anitgen
how do you get so many cones of monoclonal antibodies
- get a tumor cell - divides very fast
- fuse tumor cell and b lymphocyte
- creates a HYDRIDOMA
what do pregnancy tests detect
the hormone HCG only found in a pregnant womans pee