Disease
Immune System Components
Immunity
Immune Responses
Toss up
100
The name of the biochemical process that occurs to repair a damaged blood vessel
What is the coagulation cascade?
100
What are the surface markers used to identify a cells?
Antigens
100
Which branch of the immune system is able to remember pathogens it has previously encountered?
Adaptive immune system
100
Where do most pathogens tend to enter out bodies?
Mouth, eyes, nose, cuts
100
Antibiotics only work against this type of pathogen.
What is bacteria?
200
What tool is used to measure the amount of radiation in an area?
Geiger counter
200
"The Running of the Bulls" event is held in what Spanish city?
Pamplona
200
What is the name of the "destructive endocytosis" done by macrophages in our body?
What is Phagocytosis
200
A clot is made of what 2 things?
Platelets and fibrin
200
What term is used for the speed at which a piece of music is played?
Tempo
300
What is the term for a pathogen that jumps from animals to humans?
Zoonosis
300
What are the names of our four FHS administrators?
Wallace, Etheridge, Meussner, Shannon
300
Which character is always trying to steal the secret Krusty Krab Recipe on "SpongeBob SquarePants"?
Plankton
300
Activated B cells can turn in to what 2 cell types?
Plasma cells and memory B cells
300
What is the only lymphocyte involved in the innate immune system?
Natural killer cells
400
What type of cells are destroyed by the HIV virus?
Helper T cells
400
Name 2 components of the 1st line of defense.
Skin, mucus membranes, stomach acid, tears, etc
400
Draw the structure of an antibody?
400
Which Amendment to the US Constitution gave women the right to vote?
19th
400
What is one way that antibiotics attack bacteria?
Damage cell wall, target metabolic enzymes or 70S ribosomes or DNA synthesis
500
Name one of the targets of antiviral drugs used to treat HIV.
reverse transcriptase, integrase, protease
500
Describe the cascade that follows the release of clotting factors.
Prothrombin to thrombin, fibrinogen to fibrin
500
Name 2 things that antibodies can do to pathogens?
Precipitate, agglutinate, neutralize, trigger inflammation or the complement system
500
What specific type of cell produces antibodies?
Plasma cell
500
What are the chemicals used by Helper T cells to activate B and T cells?
Cytokines