What are antigens?
Substances that sends the immune system to action
What do tears do?
Tears cover and protect the eye from dust and pathogens
What is a fever?
rises temperature to stop pathogens or germs from reproducing.
What are antibodies?
Specific proteins that attach to antigens keeping them from harming the body.
Kills germs and pathogens that are in the mouth
What is inflammation?
Bodies result to injury and disease resulting in swelling.
How does the body build immunity?
When you get certain diseases
A protective surface that protects the blood and pathogens
What do white blood cells do?
Surround and destroy pathogens or germs.
Mom/mothers
What is stomach acid?
Something that kills pathogens or germs in the stomach.
What does the interferon do?
Boost the bodies immune system.
What is immunity?
the ability to resist the pathogens that cause a particular disease
What is the immune system?
a combination of body defenses made up of cells,tissue,and organs that fight pathogens in the body
What Is the Nonspecific Immune Response?
The same action no matter what enters the body.