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| toxic produced by microbe |
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| (LPS) part of the cell wall, has generalize effect, heat doesn’t affect them, not potent, but can still kill you. Induces inflammation. |
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| Produced by organism and excreted. Usually polypeptides and proteins. Easily denatured by heat. Immunogenic, makes good vaccines. Usually have specific cell target. |
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| catch them from other people like common colds |
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| don’t catch from other people; example: tetanus, you get it from the environment. |
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| effect on peripheral and central nervous system |
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| Example of mutualism; E. coli |
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| it lives in our gut and produces vitamin K for us to help us digest our food and stimulate immune system. E.coli gets a 37 degree environment, nutrients from our food |
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| Living on or within another organism without injuring or benefiting the other organism. we have organisms living in our mouths, we feed organisms in our teeth/oral cavities. They don’t cause us disease |
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| ability of organisms that doesn’t normally cause disease start to actually cause the disease. E.coli normally doesn’t cause disease but if you have damaged tissue and put e.coli on it, e.coli will be destructive to us. |
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Subjective change, such as pain and loss of appetite,
Example: Patient feels nervous all the time. |
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Objective changes to body such as fever or rash that can be directly observed.
Example: Measure patients shaking hands and see if it gets better or worse |
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| combination of symptom and sign such as AIDS. People with AIDS have night sweats and decreased lymphocytes. |
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| part or all of host body isn't capable of carrying on its normal functions due to the parasite |
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| When parasite grows and multiplies within host |
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| organism infects an organism with weak immune system |
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| agent that produces a disease |
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| two dissimilar organisms (symbiont) living close to each other |
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| both partners need each other to survive; mutualist and host metabolically dependent on each other |
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| comes on suddenly but doesn’t last very long. If you have a meal and 20 minutes later, you have food poisoning or E.coli |
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| comes slowly and lasts a long time |
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| onset of systems are delayed like herpes virus |
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number of new cases in a given time period
Example: number of new cases of tetanus cases in 2009 |
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| number of EXISTING cases at any given time |
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affects small groups of individuals
example: legionnaires disease. People at a hotel got pneumonia and some died, but disease went away forever. Disease was around a long time but the specific group of people caused the disease to occur |
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| : large population affected and associated with specific population/geographic area. Central America and Asia endemic for Malaria |
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| affects large population such as cholera disease coming from water source being contaminated |
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epidemic disease on a worldwide spread, it’s global. HIV can be considered as a pandemic disease.
Pandemic in 1918: large number of deaths with influenza |
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| Protista: intermediate: SINGLE cells with nucleus and organelles, but no vascular tissues/organs |
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| Prokaryotes: bacteria with no nucleus, no membrane organelles |
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1. Algae: phototrophs
a. Use morphological and cell to identify, no phylogeny
b. Cell wall
c. Presence/absence of flagella
d. Photosynthetic pigmentation
e. Reserve products, plants use starch
f. Reproductive structures
g. 18S DNA mainly used for phylogenetic approach |
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| used for cell wall. Looks like cellulose but has substitution group, amino group instead of an alcohol group |
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| Study of photosynthetic protists |
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| absences of tissue organization in fungi, plants, and animals |
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| The 2 subkingdoms of Protista |
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1. Protozoa: heterotroph
2. Algae: phototroph |
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| How does algae get energy? |
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| gets energy from utilizing starch and stores that energy in mitochondria |
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Domain: Separates Eukaryotic (several celled) organisms from Prokaryotic (single celled) organsims.
Kingdom: Separates Domains into basic life forms: Plants, Fungus, Animals, etc. Example: Animalia
Phylum: Separates Kingdoms by major differences: Ex.: Animals into invertebrates and vertebrates
Class: Separates Phylums by very small similarities: Ex.: Vertebrates into Reptiles, Mammals, Fish, Amphibians, ands birds
Order: Separates Classes by minor similarites: Ex.: Mammalia into Carnivora and Insectivora
Family: Separates Orders by large similarities: Ex.: Carnivora into Felinidae
Genus: Separates Families by Very large similarities: Ex.: Felinidae into Panthera
Species: The most Precise classification of life: Ex.: Tigris |
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