Vaccines and Immunity
What do vaccines help your body produce?
A: What are antibodies?
Q: What is a communicable disease?
A: What is a disease that can be spread from one person to another?
Q: What is the first line of defense against pathogens in the human body?
What is the skin?
What medicine is used to treat bacterial infections?
What are antibiotics?
What is DNA?
What is the molecule that carries genetic information?
Q: What is immunity?
A: What is the body's ability to resist a particular disease?
Q: Give one example of a disease spread through airborne transmission.
A: What is the flu (or tuberculosis, COVID-19, etc.)?
Q: What do mucous membranes do to protect the body?
What is trap and flush out pathogens?
What is the difference between a virus and bacteria?
What is viruses need a host to reproduce and bacteria can live on their own?
What is a gene?
What is a section of DNA that controls a trait?
Q: What type of immunity results from getting a disease and recovering from it?
A: What is natural active immunity?
Q: How can proper handwashing help prevent disease?
What is by removing pathogens from hands to prevent them from entering the body?
Q: Name the white blood cells that engulf and destroy invading microbes.
What are phagocytes? / Macrophages
What is antibiotic resistance?
What is when bacteria evolve to survive antibiotic treatment?
What do we call the chart used to predict the traits of offspring from two parents?
What is a Punnett square?
Q: Why do we need booster shots for some vaccines?
What is to increase or renew immunity when it decreases over time?
Q: What is the term for an organism that spreads disease without getting sick itself?
A: What is a vector?
Q: What is the role of inflammation in immune response?
A: What is to increase blood flow and bring immune cells to the infection site?
Name one lifestyle habit that helps your immune system stay strong.
What is regular exercise, enough sleep, or eating nutritious foods?
If brown eyes (B) are dominant over blue eyes (b), what is the genotype of a person with blue eyes?
What is bb?
How does herd immunity protect people who can't get vaccinated?
What is by reducing the overall spread of disease, lowering exposure risk?
Q: Explain how contaminated water can transmit disease.
A: What is by carrying harmful microbes that can enter the body when the water is consumed?
Q: What is the function of T-cells in the immune system?
A: What is to destroy infected cells and help activate other immune cells?
How do public health campaigns help fight disease?
A: What is by educating people about prevention and encouraging healthy behaviors?
What is the difference between a genotype and a phenotype?
What is genotype is the genetic makeup, and phenotype is the physical trait shown?