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This organ filters and stores blood from infection and blood loss
What is the spleen?
100
This disease can be sexually transmitted and weakens the immune system indefinitely.
What is AIDS?
100
This body system protects you from unknown substances that could cause illness.
What is the Immune System?
200
This organ trains and develops T-Cells
What is the Thymus?
200
This disease is the result of the immune system attacking insulin making cells inside the pancreas.
What is Type 1 Diabetes?
200
These two organs of the immune system can be removed during life without causing major bodily harm.
What are the Appendix and Tonsils?
300
This organ can be removed from the body but it makes antibodies
What is the Tonsils?
300
Name three factors that could temporarily cause a weakened Immune System.
What are drugs used to treat cancer, flu virus, Mono, smoking, alcohol, or poor nutrition.
300
This body system helps immune cells travel throughout the body via the bloodstream.
What is the Circulatory System?
400
This substance located in places like the Femur and Humerus produce the 3 types of blood cells, white, red, and platelets.
What is Bone Marrow?
400
This disease is present at birth and is characterized by no white blood cells.
What is Severe Combined Immunodeficiency or SCID
400
Type 1 Diabetes, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and Lupus are the result of....
What is an Overactive Immune Response?
500
These small masses of lymphatic tissue monitor intestinal bacteria populations and prevent growth of pathogenic bacteria in the intestines.
What are Peyer's Patches?
500
This autoimmune disease attacks body tissue such as lungs, kidneys, and skin.
What is Lupus?
500
This type of cell determines the immune response to infectious microorganisms and other foreign substances.
What is the Lymphocytes?