Immune System

What are white blood cells also known as?

• Leukocytes

• Adipocyte

• Erythrocyte

This 1976 film depicts a person with a deficient immune system, who must live out his life in a completely sterile environment because his body is unable to fight infections.

• "The Quest for Real Immunity"

• Breakthrough"

• "The Boy in the Plastic Bubble,"

During the plague of Athens in _______, the Greeks realized that people who had previously survived smallpox didn't contract the disease a second time.

• 500 B.C.

• 430 B.C.

• 200 B.C.

When you have a common cold. Your immune system jumps into action when the ________ invades the epithelial cells

• rhinovirus

• norovirus

• retrovirus

The human body is home to ______ of bacteria

• millions

• billions

• trillions

70% of your immune system’s functionality is regulated in your _____, where trillions of bacteria live

• lungs

• gut

• lymph nodes

_________ created the world's first successful vaccine

• Dr. Edward Jenner

• Dr. Charles R. Drew

• Dr. Jonas Salk

The _____ vaccine was the first vaccine to have been developed against a contagious disease

• measles

• influenza

• small pox