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Causes of Disease
Fighting Disease
Preventing Disease
Problems of the Immune System
Wild Cards
100
These are things that cause infectious diseases, such as bacteria, viruses and fungus
What is a pathogen?
100
This system of the body fights infection and disease.
What is the immune system?
100
A doctor will inject you with one of these in order to prevent you from getting a disease.
What is a vaccine?
100
This disease is caused when a person's white blood cells are attacked and destroyed.
What is AIDS?
100
This is the process by which a plant makes it's own food.
What is photosynthesis?
200
This is a disease due to uncontrolled cell division.
What is cancer?
200
White blood cells produce these proteins to tag and destroy a pathogen.
What is an antibody?
200
This is the stuff vaccines are made of.
What are dead or weaken pathogens?
200
This is a disorder caused by the immune system attacking a harmless substance like pollen, foods or chemicals from insects.
What is an allergy?
200
These organelles make energy (ATP) for a cell.
What are mitochondria?
300
This is another word for pathogen that literally means "small organisms."
What are microbes?
300
This word describes how white blood cells can "eat" invading pathogens.
What is to engulf?
300
This is what your body makes after you are injected with a vaccine for a particular pathogen.
What are antibodies? OR What are memory cells?
300
A body reacts negatively to this type of molecule when it has an allergic response.
What is an antigen?
300
This is the movement of water from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration.
What is osmosis.
400
This is a protein found on a cell's surface. It acts like a name tag and tell the body if the cell is "bad" or "good."
What is an antigen?
400
This is the usual shape that scientists associate with antibodies.
What is a Y shape?
400
This is a disorder that has been wiped out in North American due to vaccines. It makes a person unable to walk.
What is polio?
400
A person with AIDS has an immune system that cannot do this.
What is fight disease?
400

This is the system of the body that absorbs and assimilates food

What is the digestive system?

500

What is athletes foot caused by?

Fungi

500
After you fight a disease once, your body makes these cells in order to remember how to fight it again.
What are memory cells?
500

State 4 ways to control the spread of disease

Teacher will say what is correct

500

These white blood cells produce antibodies

What are lymphocytes?

500
These are proteins that catalyze (start) chemical reactions. If they change shape, then they don't work anymore.
What are enzymes.