Biology

Question	Answer
Cell membrane	Controls what goes in and out of the cell
Cytoplasm	Where chemical reactions take place in order for the cell to stay alive.
Nucleus	Contains genes which contain the information on making new cell parts.
Immune system	Protects our body's from invasion of illness
Foreign	Something our body isn't familiar with
Rejected	Rejects disease/ Throws away unwanted things
White blood cells	Protects us from disease
Antibodies	Protein produced by white blood cells to kill disease
Organism	An individual animal, plant or single celled life form
Mircroorganism	Microscopic organism especially a bacterium, virus or fungus
Lymphocyte	Produce antibodies that attach to the antigens on a foreign substance. These antibodies help destroy the foreign substance
Phagocyte	Wrap themselves around the foreign substance and destroy it using chemicals inside the cytoplasm
Parasite	an organism that lives in or on another organism and benefits from it, it causes harm to its 'host'
Immunosuppressants	Given to someone having a transplant to protect them. It weakens the immune system to lower the body's ability to reject a transplanted organ.
Zone of influence	Area of bacteria that is cleared by an anti- bacterial
Drip	An apparatus that passes fluids, nutrients or drugs into a patients body
Spleen	filters blood and creates new blood cells
Red blood cells	Transport oxygen around body
Antigen	Substance that causes your immune system to produce antibodies

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	Created by Iman. over 9 years ago