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Immune System
Immune Response
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100

What type of pathogen is the flu?

A virus

100
Blood cells that find and kill pathogens that have gotten past the body's external barriers.
What is White Blood Cells
100
A nonspecific response that is characterized by swelling, redness, pain, itching, and increased warmth at the affected site.
What is Inflammation
100

DAILY DOUBLE An oversensitivity to a normally harmless antigen.

What is Allergy

200
Disease-causing agents.
What is Pathogens
200
Your body's first line of defense.
What is Skin
200
Protein markers on the surfaces of cells and viruses that help the immune system identify a foreign cell or virus.
What is Antigens
200
A substance that contains the antigen of a pathogen.
What is Vaccine
300

Cholera is caused by this type of pathogen

What is a bacterium

300

Which type of immune cell 'eats' (engulfs) pathogens?

phagocytes

300

These are proteins made by lymphocytes that recognize and bind to antigens.

Antibodies

300

A disorder in which the immune system does not distinguish between 'self' and 'non-self' and white blood cells attack it's own tissues

Autoimmune

400

a disease caused by a fungi and can cause itching, burning and red, scaly skin

athletes foot

400

I last a long time in the body and provide immunity.

memory cells

400

DAILY DOUBLE a harmless preparation of dead or inactivated pathogens that is injected into the body to induce an immune response.

vaccine

400

Occurs when bacteria mutate and treatment is no longer effective. Usually the result of overprescription of the treatment.

Antibiotic Resistance

500

A disease caused by contaminated food is transmitted by this type of contact

indirect contact

500

long-lasting protection produced by an individual's own immune system

active immunity

500

What are the two types of cells involved in the specific immune response

T and B cells


500

List FIVE body defenses

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