Mr McAll's Y8 Microbes Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. This kills microbes that enter our stomach.
  2. 4. Type of white blood cell that produces antibodies.
  3. 8. Protein markers found on the surface of pathogens that enable them to be recognised by the body.
  4. 10. Organisms so small they cannot be seen without a microscope.
  5. 13. This traps microbes that enter our nose or lungs.
  6. 14. Produced by white blood cells in response to the antigens on a microbe.
  7. 15. _________ system. Our internal defence system against pathogens.
  8. 16. A type of microbe that causes athlete's foot.
Down
  1. 1. Type of white blood cell that engulfs pathogens.
  2. 3. A common illness caused by a virus
  3. 5. Injecting someone with dead or damaged pathogens to give them immunity to a disease.
  4. 6. Poisons produced by some microbes.
  5. 7. Drugs that are used to kill bacteria inside the body (But not viruses).
  6. 9. When your body recognises and destroys a pathogen quickly, so you do not get a disease.
  7. 11. A word to describe bacteria when antibiotics no longer work on them.
  8. 12. Methods of avoiding growing the wrong microbes when culturing bacteria in the lab. Aseptic ______________.