Vocabulary
A branch of biology dealing especially with microscopic forms of life (as bacteria, protozoans, viruses, and fungi).
Microbiology
When an antigen is detected in the body, which cell is triggered to make the antibodies?
B-cells (B Lymphocytes)
The physcial and chemical barriers, inflammatory response, and interferons
Nonspecific Defense
Acts as a physical barrier to keep pathogens out.
Skin
True or False: If a pathogen makes it into the body, there are secondary nonspecific defenses that take place.
True
The state produced by the establishment of an infective agent in or on a suitable host.
Infection
What is the job of the antibodies?
To fight off the antigens and mark them to be destroyed later.
Activates the adpative immune system and it is triggered by antigens.
Specific Defense
Openings in the skin (such as mouth, nose, and eyes) are protected by ______ which contains an enzyme that will break down the bacteria's cell wall.
Mucus
______ is caused by a pathogen increasing the blood flow to an infected area, which attacks the phagocytes to engulf and destroy the bacteria.
Inflammation
The way a microbial organism moves from one host to another.
Transmission
T cells (T Lymphocytes)
We are all born with this immunity and it is a type of general protection
Innate Immunity
They sweep dusty and other dangerous molecules down toward out throat to be collected in a ball of mucus.
Nose Hairs
True or False: The second line of defense is part of adaptive immunity.
False, it is innate immunity
Communicable by direct or indirect contact.
Contagious
Which cells help the T cells in destroying the antigens.
Phagocytes
It develops throughout our lives and it is developed by being exposed to diseases or by getting vaccinated.
Adaptive Immunity
Any of a large group of non-living, submicroscopic infective agents that typically contain a protein coat surrounding an RNA or DNA core of genetic material. They are not cellular and require a host in which to replicate. They are able to cause various important diseases in all forms of life.
Viruses
Which cells stay in your body, even after antigen has been destroyed, so that if that antigen comes back it will remember it and be fast to kill it.
Memory cells
It is borrowed form another source and only lasts a short amount of time.
Passive Immunity