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18 Cards in this Set
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Small unicellular eukaryotic organisms |
Protozoa |
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Feed on dead organic matter and digest nutrients outside of the fungal structure, recycling them back to the ecosystem |
Fungi |
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Single-called prokaryotic microbes |
Bacteria |
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An enzyme that restores the length of telomeres - the ends of DNA |
Telomerase |
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Possessing two different genes for a specific trait |
Heterozygous Advantage |
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A way of controlling bacterial pathogenicity that involves an analogy that blocks bacterial protein receptors |
Quorum Sensing |
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Cell suicide necessary in the natural life cycle of an organism |
Apoptosis |
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Another term for a fungal infection in humans |
Mycosis |
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The process of circulating chemicals throughout the body that target dividing cells |
Chemotherapy |
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Treating the tumor with intense focused energy to kill the cancer |
Radiation Treatment |
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Condition in which cancer cells enter the blood and lymph, becoming systemic |
Metastasis |
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That causes birth defects by effecting fetal development |
Teratogen |
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Chemicals that often mimic estrogen, interfering with the endocrine systems of mammals |
HAA (Harmonally Active Agents) |
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Anchorage dependence: stay anchored to its place of origin and do not invade other tissue |
Healthy Cells |
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Cells mutate and chance from having normal cell growth to prolific unhealthy, unregulated growth |
Cancer cells |
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Proteins found in the central nervous system of both humans and animals |
Prions |
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Why do microbes make us sick? |
They infect red blood cells |
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The body adapts and responds specifically to pathogens that we recognize because of previous exposure |
Adaptive Immunity |
