Specific Defenses Quiz

A ________ defense is one that has a different response for each unique pathogen

• Nonspecific

• Specific

• Inflammatory

• Pathogen

A ______ can be a bacteria, fungi, virus or anything that causes disease in the human body.

• Antigen

• Pathogen

• Plasma Cell

• Phagocyte

Type of white blood cell that engulfs or swallows up a pathogen to stop it from spreading disease in the body

• Macrophage

• Pathogen

• Virus

• Antibody

How does a phagocyte work?

• By increasing the body's temperature only

• Phagocytosis is unrelated to the body's immune response

• By inducing drowsiness in the pathogens

• By replicating the pathogen's antigen and stimulating the T call production

What is apoptosis?

• A cell bursting

• A cell rapidly multiplying

• This word does not exist

• A disease causing agent

How to cytotoxic T cells (also known as killer T cells) help the body?

• The destroy infected cells after being summoned by the helper T cells

• Cytotoxic T cells do not aid in the body's immune response

• Cytotoxic T cells provide more fluid for the body to hydrate

• Cytotoxic T cells do not exist

What do B cells do?

• Produce memory B cells and plasma cells

• B cells induce apoptosis in infected cells

• Engulf an infected cell and copy its antigen

• B cells do not support the body's immune response

What do plasma cells do?

• Plasma cells do nothing

• Produce and release antibodies

• Kill antibodies in the body

• Cause disease

What are antibodies?

• Disease causing agents

• Proteins that aid the body in retaining fluid and expelling mucus

• Proteins that bind to the pathogen and weaken its membrane

• Antibodies do not exist

How do memory B cells and memory T cells help the body?

• They allow the body to respond faster to future pathogens

• The enable a slower response to future pathogens

• Memory B cells and T cells do not help the body

• There is no such thing as memory cells