Cycles
A tumor that is contained and has not spread, is not cancer.
What is a benign tumor?
Takes a short amount of time to cause illness.
What is virulent?
Markers on the outside of a foreign cell — usually a pathogen.
What is an antigen?
A specialized cell that transmits nerve impulses.
What is a nerve cell?
Used to treat bacterial infections.
What is an antibiotic?
When parts of the tumor break off and travel to other parts of the body, is cancer.
What is a malignant tumor?
A virus in a bacteria.
What is a bacteriophage?
Markers on the outside of your own cells.
What is a self-antigen?
A group of cells with a similar structure and function.
What is a tissue?
Structures that tag infected cells for destruction.
What are antibodies?
A reproductive cycle used by viruses where the virus rapidly reproduces in the host cell and then breaks open the host to release viral progeny.
What is the lytic cycle?
A virus, bacterium, or other organism that causes an infectious disease.
What is a pathogen?
Where a virus attaches (adheres) to the cell.
What is a receptor?
A group of interconnected tissues that work together to perform a specific set of functions.
What is an organ?
The amount of people who need to be vaccinated for a disease to be eradicated.
What is herd immunity?
A disease resulting from the uncontrolled growth and division of the cells of a multicellular organism.
What is cancer?
A particle consisting of genetic material inside a protein capsule that infects host cells and uses components of the host cell to reproduce more of its kind.
What is a virus?
Markers on the outside of the cell that attaches (adheres) to the receptors of other cells.
What is a glycoprotein?
An undifferentiated cell that gives rise to specialized cells.
What is a stem cell?
A vaccine that uses a version of a pathogen that is completely ineffective or a version of a pathogen with its DNA or RNA entirely removed. This gives the receiver antibodies to the pathogen without being exposed.
What is an inactivated vaccine?
A reproductive cycle used by viruses in which a virus integrates itself into the host cell's chromosomes and becomes part of the host. The host then replicates with the virus's genetic material and passes it on to daughter cells.
What is the lysogenic cycle?
Illness caused by bacteria, viruses, parasites, or fungi that can be passed directly or indirectly to another person.
What is an infectious disease?
The organelle where a eukaryotic organism's genetic material is located; the control center of the cell.
What is a nucleus?
An organism within or upon which another organism or virus resides.
What is a host?
A type of vaccine that changes the Nucleic Acid of a pathogen to allow the receiver to develop antibodies to the pathogen without being completely exposed.
What is an attenuated vaccine?