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How You Get Sick
Virus, Antigen, Bacteria, and Other IckyYuckies
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Biology
10th Grade
04/18/2012

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Antigen
Definition
foreign substance in your body
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Antibodies
Definition
proteins that bind specifically to antigens to inactivate them: cover active sites (toxin), cover receptors (virus), bind and tag bacteria for immune cells to eat
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Lymphocytes
Definition
class of white blood cells
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B-cells
Definition
made in the bone marrow, make and secrete antibodies
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T-cells
Definition

 T helper- organize other white blood cells to fight infections, "generals"

T Killer- directly kill tumor cells, viral infected cells, sometimes parasites

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Natural Killer Cells
Definition
similar to T killer cells
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Granulocytes
Definition
eat bacteria and parasites
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Macrophages
Definition
"scavengers" pick up antigens and present them to the B or T cells, also eat tagged material
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Virgin Cell
Definition
type of B cell that is small and metabolically at rest, move freely in your blood, born with millions have thousands of identicall antibodies on membrane, no two virgin cells in your body the same
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Memory Cell
Definition
replica of a stimulated virgin cell, cells with antibodies still connected, make 2nd response to virus quicker=immunity
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Plasma cell
Definition
replica of a stimulated virgin cell, release attached antibodies into your blood
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Sequence of Events of Virgin Cell
Definition

Virgin cell's antibodies bind to the antigen- stimulates virign cell to grow

when fullgrown, it divides many times, producing plasma and memory cells

 

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Edward Jenner
Definition

notices milkmaids don't get small pox, but cowpox

gives his son small amount of cowpox disease and then smallpox, son immune to small pox and first vaccine born (thank goodness)

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Louis Pasteur
Definition
on top of everything else, the guy created the first rabies vaccination
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Vaccination
Definition
a small amount of dead virus injected into you, your body goes through the sequence of events described previously, if you get infected with virus memory cells will respond quickly and you won't get sick
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Adolf Mayer
Definition
disease spread by injecting fluid from diseased plants to healthy ones, diseases contagious what??
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Dmitri Ivanovsky
Definition
used filtration experiments to show disease is caused by an agent smaller than bacteria
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Martinus Beijerink
Definition
founder of virology, calls it a virus, discovers it isn't a toxin because it can't be diluted
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Wendell Stanley
Definition
study of viruses as large molecules
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Virus Structure
Definition

Center going outward

genetic material (DNA and RNA)

Capsid (protein coat)

Envelope (host cell membrane and protein spikes)

all viruses are very different because they must adapt to their host enviroment

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Specificity
Definition
viruses only attack cells they recognize (named after organisms they attack)
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Viroid
Definition
infectious agents composed exclusively of a single piece of circular single stranded small RNA with double stranded regions
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Prion
Definition
infectious agent composed of a single gylocoprotein, no nucleic acid- self replicating protein
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Lytic Cycle
Definition

active viral infection

virus attaches to cell membrane, injects DNA into cell

takes over cell telling it to replicate the viral DNA and make new capsids

capsids and DNA become new viruses

an enzyme from the virus breaks the cell membrane, releasing new viruses, killing cell

New viruses attach to new cell

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Latent Infection
Definition
doesn't occur immediatly, could take years, like AIDs
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Lysogeninc Cycle
Definition

latent infection

virus attaches to cell membrane and injects DNA into cell

Viral DNA forms a circle inside host

Viral DNA attaches to host's DNA

viral DNA becomes a part of the host's DNA

the host cell replicates by mitosis

viral DNA pinches off of host's DNA and forms a circle

Then it kills the cell!

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Domain Archaea
Definition

means ancient bacteria

found in extreme habitats like ancient bacteria would have (deep in mud, extreme pH or temp,etc.)

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Domain Bacteria
Definition

heterotrophs-can't make own food

decomposers-help recycle nutrients

parasitic

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Photoautotrophs
Definition
make their own food using light, contain pigments, algae like
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Chemoautotrophs
Definition
make their own food using chemicals (Sulfur and Nitrogen)
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Structure of Bacteria
Definition

prokaryotic

no nucleus or membrane bound organelles, DNA found in cytoplasm as one circular chromosome, contains ribosomes

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Flagella
Definition
longer tails, move bacteria
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Chromosome
Definition
one circular region, area that contains the chromosome called the nucleoid region
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Pilli
Definition
attaches bacteria to surfaces and aids in sexual reproduction, an extension of the cell membrane
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cell Membrane
Definition
regulates what goes into and out of the cell, involved in making ATP
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Cell Wall
Definition
protection, outside
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Capsule
Definition

not all bacteria have this, those that do are more disease-y

protection

little cute skirt on bacteria

Term
coccus
Definition
sphere
Term
Endospores
Definition

hard outer covering that enables the cell to live in a dormant state when conditions for living aren't favorable, resistant to drying out,boiling, chemicals, can survive for thousands of years,

must be killed by pressure cooking

 

Term
bacillus
Definition
rod
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Spirillum
Definition
spiral
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diplo
Definition
cells paired
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staphylo
Definition
clusters of cells
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Strepto
Definition
chains of cells
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Reproduction of Bacteria
Definition

can't use mitosis because they have no nucleus

so no IckyYucky sex...

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Binary Fission
Definition

asexual reproduction (no exchange of genetic reproduction)

chromosome is repelicated, copies of chromosome attach to the cell membrane, cell grows and copies separate, cell divides in two

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Conjugation
Definition

sexual reproduction (there is an exchange of gentic reproduction but not really sex)
transfer of part of the chromosome to another cell

for variety in the population for better adaptations

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Nitrogen Fixation
Definition
bacteria take Nitrogen from the air and fixes to be a form that plants can use for proteins and DNA
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Economic Importance of Bacteria
Definition

Nitrogen Fixation

Decomposition of biodegradable

recycling of nutrients due to decomposition

various foods (yogurt, vinegar, mostly stuff you hate)

medicine-antibiotics

gene cloning

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