10.1.17—Cholera bacterium produces a toxin
- Syllabus
- 0610–2026–2027
- Objective
- 10.1.17
- Level
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10.1.17—Cholera bacterium produces a toxin
- Explain that the cholera bacterium produces a toxin that causes secretion of chloride ions into the small intestine, causing osmotic movement of water into the gut, causing diarrhoea, dehydration and loss of ions from the blood
ConceptIGCSE Biology