Medical Treatments
What are some examples of medical interventions?
What are toothpaste, gauze, bandage, glasses, soap, and any others that prevent disease and harm?
Three sections of the ear
What are outer, middle, and inner?
Who is Edward Jenner?
Gene therapy
What is using functional genes to replace someones faulty genes?
MRI use
Give the definition for an ELISA
What is a test that uses enzymes, serial dilutions, primers, and DNA to find out if someone is infected?
Cochlea function
What is transform vibrations into a neural signal?
Herd immunity
What is the more people who can't get sick, the more protected those who can get sick will be?
What is detecting unusual things in the body like tumors?
Types of antibiotics
What are penicillin, tetracyclines, fluoroquinolones, and sulfa antibiotics?
Malleus, incus, and stapes.
What is hitting each other to activate the oval window?
Similar pathogens leading to vaccines
What is the more similar a disease is to another, the easier it is to make a vaccine?
Ex: smallpox and cowpox
PCR acronym
What is polymer chain reaction?
Cancer cause
Vaccine creation
What is gathering a similar pathogen, using tissue culture and get a good strain, isolate toxins, pull out a protein coat, purify vectors, and take the vaccine?
Ways to make a vaccine
Use of PCR
What is making several copies for one piece of target DNA?
Cancer cells
What is a mutated cell growing out of control and rapidly duplicating?
Genetic testing
What is either gathering amniotic fluid, using villi cells, getting newborn blood, get karyotypes, use ultrasonography, or do a carrier screen?
Semicircular canal
What is control and help with balance?
Name a vaccine that is required every year
What is the flu shot?
Types of genetic testing
What are villi sampling, amniocentesis, newborn screening, carrier screening, karyotypes, and ultrasonography?
Spotting cancer
What is DNA microarrays allow scientists to see thousands of genes and see which cause cancer?