This word means you are born this way
What is the scientific name for a white blood cell?
Leukocyte
What is the scientific name for a red blood cell?
Erythrocyte
What cells have the DNA "turned on" to make antibodies?
B cell/ B lymphocytes
Where are hematopoietic stem cells found?
bone marrow
This is the first route that the innate immune system takes in differentiation
myeloid
What two cells produce histamine?
Mast cells and basophils
What is the scientific name for a platelet?
Thrombocyte
This is the letter that an antibody is shaped like
Y
This word means does not go through cycles of cellular replication
amitotic
This means consuming on a cellular level
phagocytosis
Parasites
What enzyme is responsible for differentiating myeloid cells into red blood cells?
Erythropoietin
What is the name for the protein that attaches to an antibody?
Antigen
What is the name of the precursor of all blood cells
Hematopoietic stem cells
Mast cells are found locally and release this chemical signal
histamine
What is the process that leads to inflammation due to the presence of histamine?
vasodilation
What organ releases erythropoietin?
kidneys
T-cells and B-cells are cells of what part of the immune system?
Learned/adaptive
What word means that the cell can turn into any form of a specific category of cells, but not anything else.
multipotent
This type of blood cell releases histamine and is found in the blood stream
Basophils
Where in the body do T lymphocytes mature in?
Thymus
What is an inactive and immature thrombocyte called?
Megakaryocyte
plasma cell
What is the name of the first stem cell that the human body has?
Embryo