Vaccines 1
Your body's natural defense again viruses.
Immune system
Chemicals produced by your body to destroy foreign viruses.
antibodies
Antibiotics kill these microorganisms.
The name for common antibiotics that are used to clean cuts and scratches.
antiseptics
DNA has four bases typically abbreviated with these four letters.
ATCG
These are some of the possible side-effects of immunization.
fever, sickness, swelling
The opposite of an antibiotic.
probiotic
A object, such as a surgical instrument, that has been cleaned of all bacteria is said to have been _______.
sterilized
DNA base pairs are held together by these forces.
inter-molecular
Vaccines were first discovered by a doctor who intentionally infected an 8-year old child with pus from the blisters of nurses with this disease.
cowpox
Because of this movement, many people are now refusing to vaccinate their children. In recent years, this has led to the resurgence of some diseases.
This was the first antibiotic.
penicillin
When the DNA of an organism is damaged or altered.
mutation
RNA contains this base pair not found in DNA.
Uracil (U)
The first vaccine was for this disease.
smallpox
Those with weakened immune systems cannot receive vaccines, so they must rely on this to keep them safe.
Overtime bacteria will develop a(n) __________ to antibiotics.
immunity/resistance
Bacteria reproduce ___________ through the process of __________ _________.
asexually
binary fission
The human genome project accomplished this feat.
mapping all 3,088,286,401 base pairs in one man's genome.
The only disease to have been completely wiped out by vaccination.
smallpox
Vaccines will not work forever because of the ability to viruses to do this.
evolve
If you're prescribed antibiotics and you stop taking them halfway through you could be helping to spread these.
superbugs
If you ever work in a laboratory in the future, you will likely use one of these machines to kill bacteria in your lab equipment.
autoclave
The structure of DNA was discovered using this imaging technique.
x-ray crystallography