COVID-19 & The Vaccine
Across
- 1. /Usually carries coding information from DNA
- 3. /a disease that has spread across a large region or the world
- 4. /a microorganism that can cause disease
- 5. /an obligate intracellular parasite
- 7. /triggers a primary response, so that the body knows how to respond when the actual pathogen is encountered
- 10. /Most diverse group of macromolecules (chemically and functionally) and are synthesized the same way antigens are
- 11. /New generation of vaccines that contain mRNA that encodes for the antigen of that pathogen
- 12. /biological catalysts that facilitate specific chemical reactions (Speed things up)
Down
- 2. /The information center of the cell (houses the DNA)
- 6. /a network of cells that defend the body against infection
- 8. /molecule that provokes a specific immune response (Gets displayed on cell surface to be identified by the immune system)
- 9. / a process that occurs in the cytoplasm