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General Questions
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What is skin?
A physical barrier that stops most pathogens from entering the body.
100
What are helper T cells?
Helper T cells activate B cells.
100
What is an allergen?
Any substance that causes an allergic reaction
100
What is HIV?
Mainly transmitted in two body fluids, semen and blood.
200
What is gastric juices?
The liquid that can destroy pathogens that enter the stomach.
200
What is active immunity?
All acquired immune responses give you active immunity.
200
What is anaphylactic shock?
A severe reaction after being exposed to allergens.
200
Who is Mary Montagu?
An English woman to find a cure to smallpox by observing a Turkish woman.
300
What is an acquired immune response?
A highly specific response to a pathogen.
300
What are memory B cells?
They allow your body to remember a specific antigen/pathogen for future immunity.
300
What is HIV?
A powerful pathogen that attacks the immune system itself and can destroy it buy infecting helper T cells.
300
Three things that might happen if you share food with someone.
Answers may vary.
400
What is up to a week?
The time it takes for the immune system to mount a ACQUIRED immune response.
400
What is recognition, mobilization, disposal, and immunity?
The four steps of the response of your immune system.
400
Who is Edward Jenner?
The English doctor who gave a 8 year old child cowpox and when he gave the child smallpox, the child did not get any symptoms of small pox.
400
What is small pox?
Last known natural occurrence of this disease in 1977 in Somalia.
500
What is chronic tonsillitis?
In the 1960s, many children had their tonsils removed because physicians thought it was the best way to treat _____.
500
What are white blood cells surround the pathogen and signals for T cells. Helper T cells signal for B cells. B cells produce antibodies and the antibodies destroy the pathogen. Your body stores some of the newly produced antibodies on B cells and are called memory B cells. They can be reactivated if the antigen or pathogen reappears?
The whole process of an acquired immune response.
500
What is eating a well-balanced diet, maintain your personal hygiene, keep your home clean, avoid tobacco and other non-prescription drugs, get plenty of rest and exercise, keep your vaccinations up to date, and do not engage in activities that involve sharing bodily fluids with others.
Seven ways you can take care of your immune system.
500
What is Rhinovirus?
About one third of all colds are caused by this virus. It grows at a temperature of 33 degrees Celsius.