Disease And Distruption of Homeostasis

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What is a disease

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A disorder of function in a human, animal, or plant

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Disease is a loss of what?

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Homeostasis

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Symptom

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When a disease produces a sign in a specific location of the organism

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The body’s way of maintaining homeostasis

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Feedback Mechanisms

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Inheritant diseases

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Harmful genetic traits can be passed down from parents to offspring. Parent may not show disease, but can be a carrier

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Examples of genetic diseases

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Sickle Cell Anemia and Cystic Fibrosis

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What does Sickle Cell Anemia

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A disease that cause red blood cells to misshapen and break down

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What is Cystic Fibrosis

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Disorder that damages the lungs and digestive system

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Organ Malfunction

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Failure of an organ to function properly

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Examples of Organ Malfuntions

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Kidney Failure, Heart Attack, and Diabetes

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What is the organ malfunction in Diabetes

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When the Pancreas failing to produce proper amount of insulin to regulate blood-sugar levels

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Pathogens

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Foreign invader that disrupts homeostasis or causes disease

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Examples of Viruses

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Cold, Flu, HIV, Chicken Pox, Rabies, Ebola, Covid 19

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Are Viruses living or non living

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Non Living

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Examples of Bacteria

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T.B., Strep Throat, Plague, Lyme Disease

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Are Bacteria Living organisms or Non living organisms

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Living Organsims

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Examples of Fungi

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Athlete’s foot and Ringworm

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Are Fungi living organisms or non living organisms

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Living Organsims

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Examples of Parasites

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Tapeworm, Heart worm, intestinal worms

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Are parasites living or non living

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Living

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What is a Virus

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An infective agent

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Can you see a Virus from a light microscope

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No it is too small

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What can Viruses do

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Multiply only within the living cells of a host

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Pollutant

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A substance that cause pollution either in the air or water

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Examples of Pollutants

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Lead (Pb), Mercury (HB), PCB’s, and Black lung

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Examples of Harmful Lifestyles

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Smoking, Drugs, Drinking, and Excessive Sun exposure

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Uncontrolled cell growth of abnormal cells

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Cancer

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Why are we not sick all the time

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Because we have three levels of defense for immunity

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What are all of the levels of defense

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Protection, inflammation, and Adaptive Immunity.

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Parts of body that help protection

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Skin, Mucus Membranes, Hair, Stomach Acid

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Inflammation

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An increase of blood cells caused by chemicals rushing to an injured area of the body. This triggers an immune response in which white blood cells attack the pathogens

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What does your body develop more of to help get rid of Pathogens

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Lymphocytes and Antibodies

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What are Lymphocytes

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Type of White blood cell that is responsible of our immune of defense

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What do Lymphocytes do

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Recognizes antigens, produces antibodies, and destroys cells that are harmful

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Pathogens

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Disease causing foreign invaders

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Antigens

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Protein molecules attached to the surface of pathogens

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What does the immune system produce when they recognize these antigens

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Antibodies

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What are Antibodies

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Proteins that bind to antigens to mark it for destruction

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What are B Cells

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Types of white cells in the body that result from exposure to pathogens

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What do memory cells do

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Type of B Cells that remain in the body and fight off the future exposure to familiar pathogens

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What do B cells produce to specific antigens

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Antibodies

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How many Antibodies work against one specific Antigen

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ONE

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What are T cells do

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Recognize cells in our body that have been infected by pathogens and destroy the infected cells so the pathogen can’t be spread

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As your Immune System is fighting pathogens your body will raise what

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Your Temperature

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What might raising the temperature in the body do to pathogens

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Kill them

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Fevers too high will start to denature what

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Proteins within the body and cause the body to start shutting down

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What is Polio

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A virus spreads from person to person and can infect a person’s spinal cord causing paralysis

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What is a Vaccination

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A process where people are immunized (gives medicine to make them immune against a specific virus)

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How does a Vaccine work

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A sample of the pathogen is killed or weakened is injected into a person

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Where do the antibodies produced from the vaccine remain

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In our blood stream

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The antibodies in our blood stream protect us from

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From further exposure to the real pathogen

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What do Memory cells remember

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The Pathogen’s antigen

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What does each disease have

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Its own antigen

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Some Viruses mutate over time causing their antigen to do what

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Change shape

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What is developed every year to compact potential mutations

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Shots

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What do scientists predict

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Which flu strain is going to be the most threatening that year

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What does the body begin to process for bacteria

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Inflammation

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What does Bacteria do

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Release toxins that are harmful to cells and target specific tissues

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What system does E. Coli target

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Digestive system

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What are Antibiotics

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Medicine that stops the growth of a microorganism

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What is treated with antibiotics

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Bacteria

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Is a virus a microorganism

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No

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What is antibiotic resistance

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The ability of bacteria and other microorganisms to resist the effects of antibiotics that once worked

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How is Antibiotic resistance caused

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By the evolution of bacteria due to natural selection of inherited variations

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How long does evolution take for most animals

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It takes whole generations

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What is natural selection

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The idea that evolution is controlled by nature

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How long does it take for bacteria to evolve?

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20 minutes at least

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What does the evolution of antibiotic resistance cause?

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Manufacturers to continually develop new antibiotics to stay effective

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What is cancer?

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Disease caused by uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in a part of the body

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What are the different causes of cancer?

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1. Biological causes (gender/age/genes) 2. Environmental causes (U.V. Radiation) 3. Occupational causes (working around chemicals) 4. Lifestyle causes (Smoking)

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What is Benign Cancer

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Tumors that do not become cancer and stays within one organ of tissue

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What is malignant cancer?

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A tumor that is considered cancer. and spreads quickly to different parts of the body

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What are the best cancer treatment?

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1. Surgery- removes cancer 2. Chemotherapy-Medication to kill cancer cells 3. Radiation- losers target specific spots 4. Bone Marrow- injection of healthy blood cells 5. Hormones or medical treatments

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What are organ transplants

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An option for patients who require a replacement organ

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What do doctors use to make sure a donor is a perfect match

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Several Screenings

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What is an Allergy

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An abnormal immune reaction to a non-pathogen

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What does the immune system release when exposed to an allergen

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Histamines

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What are Anti-Histamines

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A medication taken to fight against newly released histamines