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What is a communicable disease

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A disease a disease that can be spread from one organism to another

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What is a non communicable disease

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A disease that is non infectious, long term and cannot be spread. Instead they are a result of lifestyle, genetics or environment

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Examples of communicable diseases

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Cholera, HIV/AiDS, malaria, tuberculosis, leprosy, polio

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Examples of non communicable diseases

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Coronary heart disease, COPD, skin cancer, depression, cystic fibrosis, diabetes

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What is a pathogen?

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A micro organism that causes infectious disease

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Different types of pathogens?

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Virus, bacteria, protists, fungi

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How is infectious diseases spread?

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Direct contact, water, air, droplets, food

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How to prevent infectious disease

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Improving hygiene (in food too), reducing contact, isolation, vaccinations, removing vectors (pesticides or insecticides )

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Examples of viral diseases?

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Measles, HIV, TMV

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What is measles

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A viral disease that affects animals (mainly children)

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How is measles spread?

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Droplets infection

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Symptoms of measles?

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Fever and red rashes, can lead to pneumonia and blindness

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How is measles prevented

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Isolation, vaccinations for children

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What is HIV?

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A viral disease that affects animals

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How is HIV spread?

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Sexual contact or exchange of bodily fluids like blood

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What are symptoms of HIV?

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Flu like symptoms, attacks immune cells can lead to aids

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What is the treatment and prevention for HIV?

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Antiretroviral drugs to stop virus replication, barrier contraception

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What is TMV?

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Tobacco mosaic virus, a viral diseases that affects animals plants

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How is TMV spread?

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Enters plants through wounds and contacts between plants, vectors like insects

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What are symptoms of TMV?

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Discolouration of leaves, mosaic pattern, yellow spotting , stunting, malformation

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What is the prevention of TMV?

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Removal of infected plants, controlling pests, sterilising

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What are examples of bacterial diseases?

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Salmonella, gonorrhoea

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What is salmonella?

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A bacterial disease that is food poisoning caused by salmonella bacteria

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What are the symptoms of salmonella?

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Fever, stomach cramps,vomitting, diarrhoea

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How is salmonella spread?
Bacteria found in raw meat, eggs
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What is the treatment and prevention of salmonella?
Vaccinated poultry, cook food thoroughly
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What is gonorrhoea?
A bacterial disease that is an STD
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What are the symptoms of gonorrhoea?
Thick discharge, pain whilst urination
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How is gonorrhoea spread?
Spread through unprotected sexual contact
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Teartement and prevention for gonorrhoea?
Contraception, antibiotics, penicillin
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What is an example of a fungal disease?
Rose black spot
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What is rose black spot?
A fungal disease that affects plants
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What are symptoms of rose black spot?
Purple or black spots on leaves of rose plants, which turns yellow and drops leaves. Reduces ability to photosynthesise
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How is rose black spot spread?
Spores of fungus are spread through water, air and contact
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What is the prevention for rose black spot?
Fungicides
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What is a protist?
Eukaryotic single celles organisms that can vary in features
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What is an example of a protist disease?
Malaria
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What is a parasite?
A protists that lives off another organism and causes it harm
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What is malaria?
A protist disease that enters red blood cells and damages them
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What are symptoms for malaria?
Fevers and shaking (when protists burst blood cells), tiredness, difficulty breathing, jaundice, seizures
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How is malaria spread?
The vector is a female anopheles mosquito. The mosquito injects plasmodium into a human, then the plasmodium (malarial protist) a sexually reproduces in the liver, they become gametes in the red blood cells, then the mosquito drinks the blood and sexual reproduction happens in the mosquito
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How is malaria beating treated / prevented?
Insect nets, insecticides, anti malarial medicine, killing mosquitoes
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What is a non specific defence?
Does not distinguish between pathogens and its role is to prevent pathogens from entering the body
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What are examples of non specific defences in the body?
SKIN:forms a protective layer around the body. The outer layer contains dead cells which pathogens cannot penetrate. The skin produces sebum which can kill bacteria. The skin scabs if cut to prevent pathogens NOSE HAIRS AND MCUS IN NOSE: traps pathogens, the CILIA: trachea and bronchi are covered in hairs called cilia which can trap pathogens and waft them uowards STOMACH: HCl, kills pathogens
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What is a specific défense?
Can distinguish between pathogens
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What is an example of a specific human défense?
Immune system - white blood cells
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What are the different types of white blood cells?
Phagocytes, lymphocytes
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What does a phagocyte do?
Phagocytosis x engulfs the pathogen and digests and destroys it
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What do B lymphocytes do?
Produce antibodies(y shaped protein spike) which are specific to the antigen of a pathogen. Also produces antitoxins to counteract the toxins from the pathogen by neutralising
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What is herd immunity?
Gives protection to those who can’t be vaccinated
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How do vaccines work?
1: a small quantity of dead or inactive pathogen is injected into the body 2: an immune response is triggered and white blood cells produce antibodies, antitoxins and perform phagocytosis 3: memory cells are produces that ensures antibodies can be produced much quicker if the pathogen enters again 4:when and if the pathogen enters the body again the immune response is much faster and effective, causing immunity
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What are antibiotics?
Medicines that cure bacterial disease by killing bacteria in the body
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What is antibiotic resistance?
When an antibiotic is overused and bacteria become resistant to them
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What are painkillers?
Drugs used to treat pain, they block the enzymes (COX) in the brain or bind to opioid receptors
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Where is the heart drug digitalis extracted from?
Foxglove plant
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Where is the pain killer aspirin extracted from?
Willow
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Where is penicillin extracted from?
Penicillium mould
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Who discovered penicillin and how?
Alexander Fleming He left some pétri dishes that had been contaminated with mould and he saw that the penicillium mould released a chemical the destroyed all the bacteria around it
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What must drugs be tested for ?
Toxicity- are there harmful side effects? Efficacy- does it work? Dose- how much? They are then peer reviewed
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What are the three stages of drug development?
Preclinical testing, organism testing Clinical trials
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What is preclinical testing?
Drugs are tested on cells, eficacy and toxicity are tested here
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What is organism testing?
A drug is tested in animals like mice, efficacy, toxixty and dosage is tested here
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What is clinical trials?
The drug is tested on human volunteers. A double blind trial is where the doctor and patient doesn’t know whether they are getting a placebo. A blind trial is where the doctor knows. An open trial is where both knows
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What are monoclonal antibodies?
Antibodies produced by a single clone of cells that are specific to one antigen
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How are monoclonal antibodies produces?
A mouse is unjected with a pathogen to produce antibodies 2: the antibodies are extracted 3: the antibodies are combined with tumour cells as they can divide 3: hybridoma cells are formed 5: they cloned cells are now monoclonal antibodies 6: collected and purified
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What are some uses of monoclonal antibodies?
Pregnancy tests, to locate molecules in a tissue by using fluorescent dye, to detect cells like cancer cells, to treat diseases like cancer by not harming other cells, disease diagnosis
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Advantages of monoclonal antibodies?
Can treat diseases without harming other cells,cheaper, specificity
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Disadvantages of monoclonal antibodies?
Side effects, animal testing,
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How do pregnancy tests work?
1: urine is put onto strip of absorbing pared, is pregnant then it will contain HCG hormone 2: the HCG travels up the strip and there are mobile antibodies connected to blendye at the start of the test 3: they attach to the mobile antibodies and go to the first strip 4: first strip have non mobile antibodies and HCG with antibodies on them attach to the non mobile ones, and the blue dye makes it appear blue 5: the remaining mobilised antibodies travel the the Control Strip where they attach to more immobile antibodies and it appears blue (this is to make sure the urin travelled all the way up the strip and the test worked.
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Which minerals to plants need and why?
Nitrate ions - amino acids for protein, lack causes stunted growth and pale leaves Magnesium ions- synthesis of chlorophyll, lack causes yellow leaves (chlororsis) Potassium ions -production of fruit and flowers, lack causes no fruit or flowers
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What are examples of physical plant défenses?
Cellulose cells wall Waxy leaf cuticle Bark Thorns Hairy stems
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What are examples of mechanical pant défenses?
Drooping leaves Mimicry
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What are example’s of chemical plant défenses?
Antibacterial chemicals Poisons

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