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Gregory Carter

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Students explore how the immune system, fights a war with a pathogenic organism: one of the many bacteria, viruses, and protozoans that can infect our bodies and cause disease.

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the immune system, bacteria, protozoa, viruses

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bacteria, immune system, pathogenic organism, protozoans, viruses, science
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5th - 8th
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Science
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