DEFENSE SYSTEM
What is a pathogen?
The ability to resist or recover from diseases.
A reaction to a harmless or common substance.
What is an allergy?
Feeling tired, a sore throat, a pain somewhere in your body.
Cough, fever, shortness of breath, muscle aches, sore throat, loss of smell or taste, headache.
Skin, hair, nails, mucous
What are your body's external defense systems?
The body builds by being exposed to the pathogen that causes the disease.
How does the body build immunity?
Cells that divide at an uncontrollable rate.
What is cancer?
Caused by hereditary of environmental factors.
What is noninfectious disease?
Respiratory problems, kidney failure, or death.
What can COVID-19 lead to?
Inflammation, platelets, fever
What are internal defense systems?
Once your body has found a pathogen; it has T and B cells that remember it.
What are memory cells?
The immune system fails to defend or gets weakened.
What is an immune deficiency disorder?
Caused by a pathogen-bacteria, fungi, parasites, and viruses.
What are infectious diseases?
Frequent hand-washing, coughing into the bend of your elbow, staying home when sick, and wearing something on your face.
What are ways to prevent COVID-19?
It is made up of white blood cells that recognize and attack foreign substances in the body
What is the immune system?
A substance made from weakened or killed pathogens introduced into the body to produce immunity.
What is a vaccine?
What is an autoimmune disease?
Viruses invade living cells, bacteria infects organs, fungi (skin) infections are passed by contract and parasites are spread by contaminated water and food.
What causes infectious diseases?
COVID-19
what is another name for Coronavirus?
Macrophage, T cells, B cells, and antibodies
What are white blood cells that protect the body?
Diphtheria/Tetanus/Pertussis/Polio, Measles/Mumps/Rubella/Hepatitis B, Chickenpox
Non small cell carcinoma
What is an example of a type of lung cancer?
Plants.
What other world contains viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites?
Under the microscope, the viruses look like they are covered with pointed structures that make them look like a corona, or a crown.
What is the appearance of this virus?