The Immune System

What is Immunity?

• Resistance to disease

• a protein

• a vaccination given for a disease

• a virus

Answer explanation

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A bacterium, virus, or other microorganism that can cause disease.

• pathogen

• allergy

• vaccination

• stomach acid

a protein made in response to a specific antigen that can attach to the antigen and cause it to be useless

• vaccine

• active immunity

• antibody

• antigen

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An individual does not produce his or her own antibodies, but rather receives them directly from another source, such as mother to infant through breast milk

• passive immunity

• specific defenses

• active immunity

• HIV/AIDS

An unhealthy sickness condition or malfunction

• disease

• vaccine

• antigen

• allergy

a mild to severe respiratory illness that is caused by a coronavirus (Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 of the genus Beta coronavirus), is transmitted chiefly by contact with infectious material (such as respiratory droplets) or with objects or surfaces contaminated by the causative virus, and is characterized especially by fever, cough, and shortness of breath

• Antigen

• Antibody

• Vaccine

• COVID-19

Virus that destroys the immune system that should protect the body from diseases. The disease is passed from person to person through sexual acts, blood transfusions, used hypodermic needles, or from mother to child during birth.

• Antibody

• HIV/AIDS

• Passive Immunity

• COVID-19

Immune functions directed against identifiable bacteria, viruses, fungi, or other infectious agents

• Specific defenses

• active Immunity

• inflammatory response

• allergy

Overly strong reaction of the immune system to a foreign substance

• Disease

• Antigen

• Allergy

• Antibody

A harmless variant or derivative of a pathogen that stimulates a host's immune system to mount defenses against the pathogen

• Disease

• Vaccine

• Antibody

• active immunity

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