BOW 10

Deadly Poisonous Mushrooms

Mushroom containing a toxin that, following contact or ingestion, produces serious effects on humans, generally resulting in death.

http://visual.merriam-webster.com/plants-gardening/plants/mushroom/deadly-poisonous-mushroom.php

The biggest difference between viruses and bacteria is that viruses must have a living host - like a plant or animal - to multiply, while most bacteria can grow on non-living surfaces.Bacteria are intercellular organisms(. they live in-between cells); whereas viruses are intracellular organisms (they infiltrate the host cell and live inside the cell). They change the host cell's genetic material from its normal function to producing the virus itself.There are some useful bacteria but all viruses are harmful.Antibiotics can kill bacteria but not viruses.An example of a disease caused by bacteria is strep throat and an example of an affliction caused by a virus is the flu.

http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/20363/

BOW 9 virtual epidemic

A combination of high H>C levels , high C>S levels (the contagiousness of the disease) and high S>D levels ( the deadliness of the diseases) will cause the worst deadly epidemic.


My Data: As you can see in 17 rounds  more than 120 people have died and spread it around

Epidemic simulation, by Ian Clark and Adrian Smith

Using this page About Epidemic

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reference: http://starmap.causeway.co.uk/epidemic.asp

BOW 8 Hot Zone

what i like most about the hot zone is that it gives you so many details that you can actually picture it,also it gives me  information about diseases i have never heard about which it interest me much more. I love how the book shows what mistakes people make and what symptoms they get which is pretty scary, But after all its good because it  teaches  me how to be careful and what things can cause you disease and how it spreads.

reference: http://shelflove.wordpress.com/2010/07/05/the-hot-zone-review/

BOW 7

vaccine is any preparation used as a preventive inoculation to confer immunity against a specific disease,usually employing aninnocuous form of the disease agent, as killed or weakenedbacteria or viruses, to stimulate antibody production

     

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/vaccine

     

BOW 6

diffusion : The spread of one area to a different group by contact.
ex : the perfume diffuses around the room.

facilitated diffusion : type of passive transport that allows things to pass the membrane with the help of transport proteins.
ex : sugar has to be able to cross the plasma membrane.

active transport : movement of a chemical substance from a lower center of concentration to a higher center of concentration due to its energy
Ex : coffee filters

endocytosis :the process in which the cell takes in materials from the outside and fusing them with its plasma membrane.
ex: monocytes can eat foreign substances such as bacteria

exocytosis : cellular process in which a  intracellular vesicles in he cytoplasm fuse with the plasma membrane
Ex : hormones from the endocrine glands

osmosis : the movement of water across a permeable membrane
ex : white blood cell