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Flashcards by Ava Saunders, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Ava Saunders
over 2 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Antigens | Antigens are produced by pathogens and they are cell markers that the body can recognise as foreign. |
| Antibodies | Antibodies are produced by our body in response to a disease. |
| Placebo | A dummy medication that looks exactly like the real medication but isnt. |
| Blind Trails | The patient doesn't know whether they are taking a placebo but the doctor does, this could introduce a bais. |
| Double-blind trials | Both the patient and the doctor do not know whether the drug is a placebo or not. |
| Placebo Effect | Where you think your getting better so you get better. |
| Toxicity | How harmful something is. |
| Efficacy | Whether something ,eg a drug, works or not. |
| Mitosis | A type of cell division used for growth and repair. Before the cell divides, new chromosomes are made and the chromosomes are copied. |
| Cancer | Caner is uncontrollable cell division |
| Stem cell | A stem cell is an unspecialised cell that can differentiate into any type of cell to do a specific function. |
| Vector | something that carries a disease |
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