Disease
Immune System
Immune Response
Other
100

What type of pathogen is the flu?

A virus

100
Blood cells that find and kill pathogens that have gotten past the body's external barriers.
What is White Blood Cells
100
A nonspecific response that is characterized by swelling, redness, pain, itching, and increased warmth at the affected site.
What is Inflammation
100
An oversensitivity to a normally harmless antigen.
What is Allergy
200
Disease-causing agents.
What is Pathogens
200
Your body's first line of defense.
What is Skin
200
Protein markers on the surfaces of cells and viruses that help the immune system identify a foreign cell or virus.
What is Antigens
200
A substance that contains the antigen of a pathogen.
What is Vaccine
300

Anything that carries a pathogen and transmits it into humans.

What is a Vector

300

Which type of immune cell 'eats' (engulfs) pathogens?

Macrophages

300

These are proteins made by B cells that recognize and bind to antigens.

Antibodies

300

A disorder in which the immune system does not distinguish between 'self' and 'non-self' and white blood cells attack it's own tissues

Autoimmune

400

An autoimmune disorder where the white matter of the brain and spinal cord are destroyed

Multiple Sclerosis

400

This type of cell takes a sample of the antigen (usually from a dendritic cell) and signals B cells to be created to fight off a pathogen

Helper T Cells.

400

Which type of cell is responsible for immune 'memory?'

B cells

400

Which organ traps bacteria and pathogens to prevent them from entering the throat?

Tonsils

500

A virus that jumps from animals to humans

Zoonotic Virus

500

This type of immune cell kills self-infected cells

Cytotoxic Killer T Cells

500

What are the two types of cells involved in the specific immune response

T and B cells


500

List FIVE of the six lymphatic tissues

1. Red Marrow

2. Thymus

3. Spleen

4. Lymph nodes & vessels

5. Tonsils & Adenoids

6. Appendix & Peyer’s patches

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