Basic Immunology Final Review

Phagocytosis is appropriately categorized into which of the following?

• Adaptive immunity

• Innate immunity

• Humoral immunity

• Specific immunity

A patient with a viral infection that has initiated their cell-mediated immunity might have an increased number of which leukocytes in their peripheral blood?

• Lymphocytes

• Neutrophils

• Monocytes

• Basophils

Which of the following cells can phagocytize foreign microbes?

• T lymphocytes

• B lymphocytes

• Macrophages

• Natural killer (NK) cells

Which of the following cells is a phagocytic cell that has a similar morphology to nerve cells?

• Neutrophils

• Dendritic cells

• Mast cells

• Macrophages

Secondary lymphoid tissues that are located near our joints and serve as a collecting duct for lymph fluid are:

• spleen cells.

• lymph nodes.

• MALT.

• CALT.

Foreign microbes that enter through a cut in our hand should expect defense from which lymphoid tissue?

• CALT

• Spleen

• MALT

• Thymus

Which of the following is correct?

• adhesion molecules.

• antibodies.

• chemotaxins.

• clusters of differentiation.

A patient with antibodies in their serum to a particular virus has activated which immune cells?

• NK cells

• Macrophages

• B lymphocytes

• T lymphocytes

Which lymphocyte is part of our innate immunity?

• NK cells

• B cells

• T helper cells

• Cytotoxic T cells

Which of the following is an internal defense mechanism?

• Keratin coating epithelial cells

• Lactic acid in sweat

• Surfactant in mucosal secretions

• Phagocytosis