Immunity/Natural Selection

True or False: Bacteria that cause disease are killed using antibiotics.

• True

• False

True or False: Viruses that cause disease are killed using antibiotics.

• True

• False

The two types of traditional vaccines are made from:

• only a part of the virus

• the entire virus, either weakened or killed

• the entire virus, 100% full strength

• the genome (genetic material) of the virus

What fights off germs in the body?

• your muscles

• your fist

• your immune cells

• your brain

Why do we need to re-do flu vaccines every year

• virus can mutate

• vaccines can expire

• antibodies can disappear

Any organism that causes disease like a virus or bacteria is called:

• Antibiotics

• Antibody

• Pathogen

• Phagocyte

Part of the body's defense against pathogens in which cells of the immune system react to each kind of pathogen with a defense targeted specifically at that pathogen is called:

• Protective Barrier

• Inflammatory Response

• Immune Response

• Stomach acid

A molecule that the immune system recognizes either as part of the body or as coming from outside the body:

• Antigen

• Antibodies

• Antibiotics

• Antipaths

A protein produced by B cells of the immune system that destroys pathogens is called:

• Antigens

• Antibodies

• T-cells

• Lymphocytes

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NGSS.MS-LS3-1

Which of the following is a way to spread infectious diseases?

• Touching contaminated objects

• Not washing hands regularly

• Being near infected people

• All of these are ways