Innate Immunity
What is germ theory?
Disease is caused by the presences of pathogens
Who discovered specific bacterium caused certain diseases?
Robert Koch
What is the cell wall made of in bacteria?
peptidoglycan
True or False: A virus is living?
False
What is a pathogen?
disease causing agent
What did Louis Pasteur create?
The pasteurization process
What can you use to treat a bacterial illness?
Antibiotics
How do bacteria reproduce?
Binary Fission: Asexually
What type of virus cycle lies dormant?
lysogenic cycle
What is homeostasis?
The maintenance of a stable internal environment.
what is the defensive cell that eats pathogens?
Phagocyte
Adaptive immunity is specific to what?
pathogens
How do bacteria cause disease?
1. Invade organism 2. challenge immune system
3. use cells for food 4. release toxins
What do viruses need to reproduce?
host cell
1%
What is the response time for innate immunity?
Short: 0-96hrs
What is the response time for adaptive immunity?
more than 96hrs
Draw and label the 3 shapes that bacteria are classified into.
Coccus
Bacillus
Spiral
How are viruses treatable?
antivirals, rest, over the counter meds
What is one of the 4 things that can happen if treatment methods fail.
Autoimmune Disorders
Allergic Reactions
Overactive Immune System
Death
What do natural killer cells do?
They kill your own cells by triggering apoptosis
What are the 3 cells responsible for adaptive immunity?
B-Cells
Helper T- Cells
Killer T-Cells
List 2 of the 4 ways bacteria can have genetic variation.
Mutation, Conjugation, Transformation, and Transduction
What are the 2 things that all virus have in their structure?
capsid and nucleic acid core
What is occurring when a virus transfers genes between prokaryotic organisms?
Transduction