A vaccine is a specially prepared using a toxic chemical secreted by a pathogen is what type of vaccine?
What is a toxoid vaccine
100
AIDS stands for this.
What is Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.
200
This type of T lymphocyte destroys cells.
What are Killer T cells.
200
Antibodies are made by what cell type.
What are plasma cells.
200
Non-living substances that are foreign to the body and trigger an immune response, causing the body to defend itself against.
What are antigens
200
Vaccines work by stimulating your immune system to create these substances to fight against a disease.
What are antibodies.
200
This is a pathogen that attacks the immune system itself and can destroy it by infecting helper T cells.
What is HIV, or Human Immunodeficiency Virus.
300
These cells mature and differentiate in the thymus
What is T-cells
300
During an initial infection, antibody levels peak in how many days.
What is about 10 days.
300
Pathogens are spread by these methods.
What is direct contact, indirect contact, infected water and food, and animal bites.
300
People that were getting cowpox 200 years ago were developing immunity for this disease.
What is smallpox.
300
Name one disease caused by a single gene
What is cystic fibrosis, PKU, sickle cell anemia
400
The immune response which you are born with is also called what?
What is your innate immune response.
400
When a pathogen infects a person for a second time, the antibody levels peak in how many days.
What is 2-3 days.
400
These antigens mark a cell as "self".
What are MHC proteins
400
This scientist is recorded as performing the first effective vaccination
Dr. Jenner
400
The goal of the HapMap project
What is finding the genes responsible for genetic disorders
500
Name the 2 major types of lymphocytes.
What are T cells and B cells
500
The lymphocyte which will give rise to the cells that make antibodies is what.
What is a B cell or B lymphocyte.
500
Antigens on the cells of these tissues for these two types of grafts should be identical
What are autografts and isografts
500
Directly exposing a healthy person to the infectious material of a sick person to force them to come down with the disease and thus obtain an immunity to this disease (like smallpox) is known as what.
What is variolation
500
This is why a percentage of the population do not respond or respond well to prescribed medications.
What is different genetics which prevent certain drugs from being useful.