The Immune System – Questions



The Immune System

1) What does immunity mean?

2) What was Onesimus’ role in protecting Puritans from small pox?

3) Describe how Edward Jenner made people immune from small pox.

4) Describe how Louis Pasteur discovered the vaccine for chicken cholera.

5) How did Louis Pasteur prove that he had discovered a vaccine for anthrax?

6) Describe the ways the body protects itself from germs using “innate immunity”.

7) How did Ilya Mechnokov discover phagocytes?

8) Describe the inflammatory response.

9) How do phagocytes kill microbes?

10) What is a zit?

11) What are interferons? How do they work?

12) What is the major histocompatibility complex?

13) How can blood be used to investigate paternity?

14) What is an antigen?

15) What is an antibody?

16) Describe the action of B cells in humoral immunity?

17) How are antibodies passed from mother to child?

18) Why is it good for children to be “not too clean”?

19) Describe the action of T cells and macrophages in cell-mediated immunity?

20) What causes allergies?

21) How do antihistamines help?

22) Why don’t antihistamines prevent the secretion of gastric acid?

23) What is anaphylactic shock? How is it treated?

24) How are billions of antibodies generated from hundreds of genes?

25) What do Helper T cells do?

26) What are interleukins?

27) Why do you feel crummy when you have an infection?

28) How does aspirin and acetaminophen make you feel better?

29) How does HIV compromise the immune system?

30) What are autoimmune diseases?

31) How do you make monoclonal antibodies? What can they be used for?

32) What are immunosuppressants? What are they used for?

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