Unit 8C

Microbes and Disease

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Year 8:

Unit 8C: Microbes and Disease

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Q1: Single-celled organisms

Q2: Growing micro-organisms in a laboratory

These pictures show how to grow bacteria on agar.
Put them in the correct order.

Q3: Comparing toilet cleaners

Q4: Making yoghurt

Q5: Micro-organisms and disease

Q6: How to stop an epidemic

Q7: How Jesse Lazears death from yellow fever helped to build the Panama Canal
Put the following fact cards into the correct sequence.

Q8: Outbreak!

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Q9: Body invaders

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Q10: Protecting ourselves against disease

Complete this table.
Part of your body

How it protects you against disease

Saliva contains an enzyme that can kill micro-organisms.
Hairs in your nostrils trap micro-organisms, and mucus contains an enzyme that can
kill micro-organisms.
Most micro-organisms are killed by acid.
Micro-organisms cant get through the tight layers of cells.
Tears contain an enzyme that can kill micro-organisms.

2- your body makes enzymes that can kill micro-organisms.

Name three parts of your body that use enzyme to protect you against disease.
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Q11: What happens when you get a cold?

The sentences below describe how white blood cells protect you against disease.
Put them in the correct order.

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Q12: The body police

P.S:
There are two other types of antibodies, which work in different ways:
Antibodies stick to the micro-organism so it cant get into cells and cause disease.
Antibodies join micro-organisms together into a clump, which white blood cells engulf and destroy.
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Q13: Which antibiotic?

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Q14:

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