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B6 Preventing
and treating
disease
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01.1
Flu is caused by a virus
Antibiotics only kill bacteria
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B3.1.2
01.2
Relieve/treat symptoms
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B3.1.8
02.1
decrease
rate of decrease slows
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B3.1.8
WS3.5
02.2
any one from:
 more use of disinfectant
 more use of hand washing
 more careful/more often cleaning
of patient facilities
 raised awareness/education about
hygiene
Explanation: stops/reduces the
bacteria being transferred/spreading
allow any reasonable
increase in hygiene or
sterilisation precautions
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B3.1.8
WS3.6
800 - 500
 100 =
800
correct answer with or
without working gains
2 marks
02.3
37.5 (%)
02.4
any one from:
 numbers quite low now so hard to
reduce further
 was a big campaign/much
publicity (in 2009) so more people
already doing it
 hygiene/cleaning now good so
hard to improve
 hospitals short of money so less
staff to clean
03.1
dead/inactive/weakened
pathogen/bacterium/virus/
microorganism
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allow antigen/protein
ignore ref. to other
components
ignore small amount
ignore germs/disease
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B3.1.8
WS3.2
WS3.3
MS1c
MS4a
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B3.1.8
WS1.4
WS1.5
WS3.5
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B3.1.7
WS1.4
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03.2
white blood cells produce/release
antibodies
antibodies produced quickly
(these) antibodies destroy the
pathogen
B6 Preventing
and treating
disease
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antigen/antibiotic instead
of antibody = max 2
accept lymphocytes/
leucocytes/memory cells
produce antibodies
do not accept
phagocytes
allow kill
do not accept antibodies
engulf pathogens
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B3.1.6
B3.1.4
WS1.4
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03.3
(live) bacteria still in body
would reproduce
Ignore numbers
Ignore mutation/growth
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B3.1.8
B6.3.4
WS1.4
WS3.5
03.4
antibiotics/treatment ineffective or
resistant pathogens survive
these reproduce
population of resistant pathogens
increases
accept resistant outcompete non-resistant
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B3.1.7
B3.1.8
B6.3.7
WS1.4
04.1
04.2
any one from:
 cells
 tissues
 (live) animals/named
any three from:
(to test for)
 toxicity/check not poisonous/
not harmful
 interaction with other drugs
 efficacy or to see if they work or
to check if they treat the disease
 dosage or how much is needed
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allow (resistant
pathogens reproduce)
rapidly
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B3.1.9
WS1.4
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B3.1.9
WS1.4
WS1.5
allow mammals
allow side-effect
allow converse
allow converse
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any six from:
 statins can damage/muscles/
kidneys/organs but cholesterol
blockers don’t
 statins can cause death but
cholesterol blockers don’t
 cholesterol blockers can interfere
with action of other drugs but
statins don’t
 statins are for a life time but
cholesterol blockers are not
 statins (might) reduce cholesterol
to zero but cholesterol blockers
only reduce it or statins reduce
cholesterol more
 statins better for people with
inherited high cholesterol
 cholesterol blockers better for
people with dietary cholesterol
problems
 taking/using statins/cholesterol
blockers is better than dying from
heart attack or build-up of fat in
blood vessels or reduced blood
flow
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and treating
disease
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comparison can be
written
anywhere in evaluation
allow use of ‘only’ for
implied comparison for
each point, e.g., only
statins damage
muscles/kidneys/organs
ignore liver
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B2.2.4
B3.1.9
WS1.4
WS1.5
if neither of the first, 2
points are given, accept
for 1 mark statins are
more dangerous than
cholesterol blockers or
statins have more side
effects
allow statins (might) stop
membrane/hormone
production but
cholesterol blockers don’t
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