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4.1.1 Flashcards

1
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Give an example of a bacterial plant disease

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Ring rot

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2
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Give an example of a viral plant disease

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TMV

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3
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Give 2 examples of fungal plant diseases

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Potato blight and black sigatoka

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4
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Give two examples of bacterial diseases in animals

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Bacterial meningitis and tuberculosis

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5
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Give two examples of viral diseases in animals

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HIV and Influenza

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6
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Give an example of an animal disease caused by a protist

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Malaria

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7
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Give two examples of fungal diseases in animals

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Ring worm and athlete’s foot

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8
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What are the types of direct transmission of pathogens between animals?

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Direct contact, inoculation, ingestion

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9
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Give examples of direct contact

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  • Kissing or any contact with the body fluids of another person
  • Direct skin-to-skin contact
  • Microorganisms from faeces transmitted on the hands
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10
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Give examples of inoculation

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  • Through a break in the skin
  • From an animal bite
  • Through a picture wound or through sharing needles
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11
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Give an example of ingestion

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Taking in contaminated food or drink, or transferring pathogens to the mouth from the hands

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12
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What are the types of indirect transmission?

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  • Fomites
  • Droplet infection
  • Vectors
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13
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What is a fomite?

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An inanimate object that transfers pathogens

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14
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What is droplet infection?

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When an infected individual talks, coughs or sneezes, the droplets of saliva and mucus may contain pathogens, which infect healthy individuals

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15
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What are vectors?

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A vector is something that transmits communicable pathogens from one host to another

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16
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What factors affect the transmission of communicable diseases

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  • Overcrowded living and working conditions
  • Poor nutrition
  • A compromised immune system
  • Poor disposal of waste
  • Climate change
  • Culture and infrastructure
  • Socioeconomic factors
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17
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What is the main physical defence of plants?

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Callose

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18
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Describe the effect of callose

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  • It is synthesised and deposited between the cell walls and the cell membrane in cells next to the infected cells. They prevent pathogens entering the plant cells around the site of infection
  • Callose blocks sieve plates in the phloem
  • Callose is deposited in the plasmodesmata between infected cells and their neighbours
19
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What are the chemical defences of plants?

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  • Insect repellents
  • Insecticides
  • Antibacterial compounds
  • Antifungal compounds
  • Anti-oomycetes
  • Toxins
20
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What barriers exist to prevent the entry of pathogens in humans?

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The skin, which contains a skin flora of microorganisms, and sebum, which inhibits growth of pathogens
Mucous membranes
Lysozymes in tears and urine

21
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Describe the process of blood clotting and wound repair

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Skin is breached. Platelets reach the collagen in skin and release thromboplastin and thrombin

22
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What does thromboplastin do?

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It catalyses the conversion of prothrombin into thrombin, in the presence of Ca+2. Thrombin then catalyses the conversion of fibrinogen to fibrin, which forms a clot

23
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What does serotonin do?

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Makes the smooth muscle in the walls of the blood vessels contract, so they narrow and reduce the supply of blood to the area

24
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What is the inflammatory response?

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A localised response to pathogens resulting in inflammation at the site of a wound

25
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What cells are activated in damaged tissue?

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Mast cells

26
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What do mast cells release?

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Cytokines and histamines

27
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What do histamines do?

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Make the blood vessels dilate, causing localised heat and redness. Blood vessel walls also become more leaky so blood plasma is forced out

28
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What to cytokines do?

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Attract white blood cells to the site.

29
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What are the stages of phagocytosis?

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  • Pathogens produce chemicals that attract phagocytes
  • Phagocytes recognise the non-self antigens
  • Phagocyte engulfs the pathogen and encloses it in a vacuole called a phagosome
  • Phagosome combines with a lysosome to form a phagolysosome
  • Enzymes from the lysosome digest and destroy the pathogen
30
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What happens when a macrophage digests a pathogen?

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It becomes an APC (antigen presenting cell)

31
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What are the two types of phagocytes?

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Neutrophils and macrophages

32
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Which type of phagocyte has a multi-lobed nucleus?

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Neutrophil

33
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What are opsonins?

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Antibodies that tag antigens to make it easier for the macrophages to engulf the pathogens

34
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What are the two different types of lymphocytes?

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T lymphocytes and B lymphocytes

35
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What happens at the start of the cell-mediated response?

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Specific T helper cell binds to the APC. The T helper cell releases interleukins (a type of cytokine)

36
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What do the interleukins cause?

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They cause the T helper cells to start dividing by mitosis and specialise into other types of cells?

37
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What cells do the T helper cells specialise into?

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T memory cells, T killer cells, T regulatory cells

38
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What happens at the start of the humoral response?

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A B cell with the specific antibody shape for the antigen binds to the antigen and becomes an APC. The B cell APC then binds to a T helper cell. This is clonal selection

39
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What is clonal expansion?

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When the B cell divides by mitosis and specialises into other types of B cells. The main two types are B memory cells and B plasma cells

40
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What do the B plasma cells do?

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They make even more B plasma cells, which produce antibodies specific to the antigen

41
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How are the heavy chains and light chains on antibodies linked?

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By disulfide bridges

42
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How many antigens can each antibody bind to?

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2

43
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What are the different functions of antibodies?

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  • Act as agglutinins, sticking the pathogens together, making phagocytosis easier
  • Act as opsonins, tagging antigens
  • Act as antitoxins
  • Directly attack pathogens

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