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1. In what year was small pox eliminated?
2.
What were the robotic spiders trying to do?
3.
Where can viruses reproduce?
4.
What disease did Jeremy catch in Africa and what animal did he catch it from?
5.
Why didn’t Jeremy’s dad get the same disease?
6.
What are the smallpox vaccine’s side effects?
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Describe the
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and secondary
response in terms of: (a) speed, and (b) number of antibodies produced.
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Which immune cells contribute to the difference in response?
3. How might today’s society react to Jenner’s technique of exposing an 8year-old child to a potentially deadly disease?
4. Do you think the last stocks of the smallpox virus should be destroyed?
Why or why not?
1. After intruders have made it past the body’s first line of defense,
explain how your body responds (specifically what the WBCs do to go after the
intruder).
A WBC killing a bacteria
by putting a hole in the
cell membrane
2.
In your own words explain the function of the different kinds of B cells and T cells.
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1. What happens to a person when they have a gelastic seizure?
2. Which lobe of the brain contained the area that made A.K. laugh whenever
it was stimulated?
3. What is the name for the “study of laughter”?
4. What does laughter do to the immune system?
Use the book (Ch. 37) & your notes for 1-6 and the newspaper article (7-9) to answer
the following questions about viruses and bacteria.
1. What are antibiotics used to treat? Why is it important to finish the entire course of
antibiotics prescribed by a physician?
2.
How are bacteria helpful?
harmful bacteria?
How are bacteria harmful?
How can we prevent the effects of
3.
What Kingdom does bacteria belong to?
4.
Where do viruses reproduce?
5.
Why don’t we have a vaccine for the cold virus (the common cold)?
6.
List the ways in which one can catch HIV from some one else.
7. What do doctors hope to do by stopping the unnecessary antibiotic
use?
8. Colds, bronchitis, sinus infections, & sore throats account for what
% of antibiotic prescriptions for adults?
9.
What groups of people are exceptions to the new rule on antibiotic use?