A-Level Biology OCR A
Cell Ways Host Viruses Digest Fungi Describe Pathogens
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Describe 4 ways in which pathogens can damage host tissue, causing harm. |
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Ways pathogen cause harm:- Viruses take over cell metabolism, using it to make new viruses which burst out of cell, destroying it and spreading to other cells
- Some protoctista take over cell but digest and use cell contents as they reproduce - they dont take over genetic material
- Fungi digest living cells & destroy them
- Most bacteria and some fungi can produce toxins that affect host cells/damage them and cause disease
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