What is the System
How it Works
Diseases and Illnesses
How to Keep it Healthy
Interesting Facts
100
Infectious organisms and "foreign" invaders/ disease-causing agents.
What is pathogens?
100
Viruses, bacteria, and other pathogens that trigger immune response.
What is antigens?
100
An allergy causing substance.
What is an allergen?
100
It provides plenty of nutrients and energy to help your body and immune system.
What is healthy food?
100
It improves resistance to by decreasing stress hormones and increasing immune cells.
What is laughing?
200
The ability of the body to resist a specific pathogen
What is immunity?
200
The two general categories of defense against infection.
What is nonspecific and specific defenses?
200
The two main causes of asthma.
What is heredity and environment?
200
It helps your immune system and is easier to treat by discovering the disease earlier from this.
What is regular checkups?
200
It weakens your immune system by over-stressing it.
What is intense exercise/ too much caffeine?
300
During Cell- Mediated Immunity the T- Cells divide into 4 different cell roles. Name them all.
What is Killer T- Cells, Helper T- Cells, Memory T- Cells, and Suppressor T- Cells?
300
The specific defense that attacks only the disease causing agent and is triggered by antigens.
What is immune response?
300
A retrovirus that carries information in RNA instead of DNA.
What is HIV?
300
Slows and suppresses the immune system.
What is drugs?
300
Minimum hours of sleep before immune system is decreased.
What is 5 hours?
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