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Bacteria

Make you feel ill by producing toxins that damage cells and tissues

Viruses

live inside cells, replicate and burst

protists

eukaryotes, parasites

fungi

single celled, hyphae which grow and penetrate human skin or surfaces of plants causing disease, they can grow spores

Pathogens can be spready by:

water air and direct contact

measles - virus

spread by droplets, develop red skin rash and fever, can lead to pneumonia, most people are vaccinated

HIV - virus

spread by bodily fluid(sex or needles), flu like symptoms, early hiv can be controlled be antiretroviral drugs which stop the virus replicating

Tobacco mosaic virus

affects plants, discoloured, photosynthesis can't happen

rose black spot- fungal disease

causes purple or black spots on leaves, leaves can turn yellow and fall off, less photosynthesis so stunted growthl, can be treated by fungicides and stripping off affected leaves.

malaria-protist

mosquito, fever, reduced by mosquito nets, breading and insecticides

gonorrhoea - bacteria

STD, pain when urinate, thick yellow or green discharge on vagina or penis, can be treated by penicillin

Preventing disease

hygiene, vaccination, destroying vectors, quarrentine

Fighting diease

1.engulf foreign cells (phagocytosis), producing antibodies, producing anti toxins

vaccination

injecting a dead or inactive form of a pathogen into the body

Gas exchange in lungs

Enormous surface area


Moist lining


thin walls


good blood suppy

villi

big SA


single layer of surface cells


good blood supply for quick absorption

Leaves

flattened shape


guard cells


oxygen and water vapour diffuse in and out

gills

water enters fish through mouth and passes out through gills.


big SA


lots of blood capillaries


thin surface layer

rate

1000/time

Benedict's test

for sugars


blue to yellow, green and brick red

iodine

for starch


browny orange to blue, black

bireut test

for proteins


blue to pink or purple

platelets

help blood clot

Sudan 3 test

for lipids


top layer bright red