8C Diseases Flashcards
What are superbugs
Are dieseases which are very difficult to treat
What are organisms
A living thing
Viruses are the
Smallest microbes
Is bacteria are much bigger than viruses , true or false
True
Fungi are made
Of many cells
What are viruses made of
A protein coat containing a gene strand which contain instructions for new viruses . These genes cause replication
Bacteria do or do not contain a nucleus
No they don’t
Their genes are found on a circular chromosome
Symptoms of measles
Fever red eyes flat res spots
Cholera symptoms
Diarrhoea vomiting muscle cramps
5 ways diseases spread and examples
Touch - atheletes foot Water - cholera Food- food poisoning Animals - malaria Sex - HIV
Natural defences are
Skin forms a clot if you cut yourself stopping microbes from enetering the body
Ciliated Epithelial cells sweep mucus ,which traps microbes in it , to the top of your gullet
What does breast milk contain
Antibodies
Why are you unlikely to get a disease after you ah e had it once
Your body makes antibodies which stay forever so your body is prepared to protect you
What is immunisation
When you are made immune to something
Vaccines
What do we name antibiotics that do no react to are called
Resistant
