November 1

It's the first day of November!!!!! Seven more months until school's out!! Now lets get down to business, the homework assigned today that is due tomorrow is to complete UP 22-25, and read 35.2 while doing a tree map. The first two categories for the tree map are nonspecific defenses and then specific defenses and the third is acquired immunity but that's in 35.3 so we don't have to do that column tonight. The first thing we did today was hand in UP 15-18. Then we looked at a cartoon demonstrating antibiotic resistance. We also took a few notes on antibiotic resistance:

• bacteria carry resistance to antibiotics in their DNA (have genes that carry resistance to antibiotics)
• where do genes come from?

-Conjugation

-mutation

• HUGE public health concern- we can't fight bacteria that are resistant to lots of antibiotics

Then, we filled out the disease of the day which was Tuberculosis (TB). The agent of disease is bacteria. The interesting/ important facts about TB are:

• it is spread through air person to person
• it attacks the lungs
• it can spread if it is not stopped
• it is prevented by washing your hands and by getting the BCG vaccine
• TB is a VERY RESISTANT DISEASE. This means that it is hard to kill because it keep on mutating which is not a good thing!

For the rest of class, all we did was work on UP 22- 25.

The next scribe will be.... Kaily B.!