Immune System Miller and Levine

Which of the following is an example of active immunity?

• You get a vaccination

• You create antibodies

• You get infected

• All of these are correct

What is the first barrier against disease?

• White blood cells

• Red blood cells

• the skin

• leucocytes 

This allows us to develop an artificial immunity to a disease without ever getting

sick from the disease.

• antibiotics

• vaccines

• blood transfusions

Which of the following statements is TRUE about someone's immune system that has allergies?

• Body cells are dividing at an uncontrolled rate.

• The body is reacting to foreign materials that are not actually dangerous.

• T cells and B cells in the body cannot be activated.

• The body is mistaking its own cells for foreign antigens.

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

The body's ability to destroy pathogens before they can cause disease is called:

• Tolerance

• Immunity

• Vaccine

• Inflammatory response

What is a function of the IMMUNE system?

• To transport materials like oxygen to our cells

• To break down food and absorb the nutrients

• To fight off diseases with white blood cells

• To control the body using the brain

Which is NOT a part of the immune system?

• Spleen

• Tonsils

• Lymph nodes

• Liver

Part of the body's defense against pathogens, in which fluid and white blood cells leak from blood vessels into tissues and destroy pathogens by breaking them down?

• Protective barrier

• Inflammatory response

• Immune response

• Stomach acid

A white blood cell that destroys pathogens by engulfing them and breaking them down is called:

• B-cell

• Phagocyte

• Antibody

• Antigen

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