Immune system

How does HIV cause damage to the body?

• infects nasal tissue,  making it more likely to catch a cold
• infects B cells, making it less likely to develop antibodies
• infects Helper T cells, making it difficult for the immune system to communicate
• infects the nervous tissue, making it hard to sense a stimulus

What is the job of the immune system?

• To protect your body from drugs and medicine
• To protect your body from air and water
• To protect your body from pathogens
• To protect your body from itself

A B cell is _____.

•  a cell responsible for removing foreign particles
• a large phagocytic cell 
• Eats foreign bodies
• the immune system cell type responsible for producing antibodies

Tears are an outer defense.

• True
• False

Allergic disorders happen when the immune system overreacts when exposed to antigens in the environment.

• False
• True

What is the largest outer defense of the body?

• Stomach Acid 
• Mucous Membranes
• White Blood Cells
• Skin

One of the main problems with viruses is that:

• They are killed by antibiotics
• They damage the host cell when they reproduce
• They cause cholera and typhoid in refugee camps

What can vaccination involve?

• Injencting a dead form of the dieases to stimulate immunity 
• Injecting an inactive form of the disease to stumulate immunity.
• Injencting an inactive form of the pathogen to stimulate immunitiy. 
• All of the above

A white blood cell that makes antibodies

• T cell
• bacteria
• B cell
• mast cell

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-2

A protein molecule released by a B cell that binds to specific antigens.

• antigen
• antibody
• allergy
• prion