Disease

5. Rod shaped bacteria
6. proteins used by the immune system to neutralize pathogens
7. twisted looking bacteria
8. WBCs that mature in the thymus and act as a “special forces unit” in your cells that cause inflammation
9. disease causing agents
11. foreign substances that act as signaling molecules
14. not considered living
16. WBC that are made and mature in the bone marrow
17. Neutrophils = the most abundant WBC
18. cell wall is high in peptidoglycan
19. virus that infects a bacteria
20. What bacteria cell walls are made of
21. network of organs that work together to recognize, fight, and defend against foreign substances

1. Round chain linked bacteria
2. use cytoplasmic extensions to reel in and “eat” bad stuff
3. protein coat on the outside of a virus
4. how bacteria reproduce
10. stability of the internal environment and the mechanisms that maintain the stability
12. cell wall has a thin layer of peptidoglycan with a polysaccharide layer
13. the ingestion of pathogens
15. has developed enough defenses to successfully avoid an invasion from a pathogen