Topic 4
Section outline
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Instructions
- Review the vocabulary
- View the video
- Take the quiz to see how well you understood the video.
- Review the reference (supplemental) material to start becoming an expert on CoVID-19
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Students mustMark as done
- Agglutination: An immune response that causes cells to stick together to form a clump of cells. These clumps make it easier for the body to remove the cells.
- Antigen: Usually carbohydrates and proteins that are present on the surface of cell membranes that can initiate an immune response.
- Blood Donor: Someone who gives or can give blood to someone else.
- Blood Acceptor or Recipient: A person who can receive a particular type of blood.
- Codominance: When the gene from the mother and the father are both expressed in the offspring.
- Dominance: When one gene dominates over the other when paired together in the offspring.
- Genotype: The genetic makeup of an organism, i.e., what genes it has.
- Phenotype: How the organism appears based on the genes it carries.
- Epistasis: The ability of one gene to prevent another gene from being expressed in the phenotype.
- Anti-D: This is another name for the anti-Rh antibodies; if your blood reacts with anti-D you are Rh+, if it does not react you are Rh-
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