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| What serves as a physical barrier to prevent the passage of many disease-causing microorganisms? |
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| ____ and abrasions compromise the skin's ability to act as a _______. |
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| Why do cells produce antibodies? |
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| Substance that is foreign to the body. |
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| When the immune system recognizes a virus structure, it generates proteins called? |
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| What 2 things do antibodies do? |
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1.kill pathogen directly
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| T/F. The body takes a couple days for the immune system to develop immunity to a new antigen. |
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| False, it takes several weeks. |
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| What gives the body a look in advance at foreign structures? |
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| What usually contains either weakened killed pathogens or a purified protein or subunit from the pathogen? |
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| The antigens in the mixture of a vaccine cause the body to? |
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| to generate antibodies to oppose the pathogen |
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| The goal of having a vaccine is to? |
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| basically be able to fight off a disease quickly in the future. |
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| An antibody ____ to the flu virus(how does it attack the virus?) |
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| The term vaccine derived from the cowpox exudates that Edward ______ used. |
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| Who discovered the rabies treatement and developed several vaccines? |
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| Jonas Salk and Albert B. Sabin found vaccines for? |
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| The simplest form of a genetic entity is? |
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| A virus contains only _________ or ___. |
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| T/F. All viruses are benign |
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| How does the body react to a virus? |
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| as an antigen and it produces antibodies to counteract the virus |
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| T/F. Bacteria are organisms with a full cellular structure. |
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| Harmful bacteria and their ______ are perceived as ________ by the body. |
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| Infectious diseases may be treated effectively with __________, which are chemicals that oxidize or inotherways inactivate the infecting organism. |
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| Antibiotics are effective with treating _________ cell walls or the functioning cell wall or by inhibiting bacterial synthesis. |
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| __________ are ineffective in treating viral infections. |
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| How do scientists figure out how antibiotics work? |
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| get a certain bacteria and put the anti biotic around agar, and if there is a clear zone(zone of inhibition), then it works. |
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| What 2 things happen when an immune system is compromised? |
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1.unable to recognize dangerous antigen
2.unable to mount an appropriate defense |
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| A compromised immune system happens when? |
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| the virus infects and destroys key cells in the immune system |
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| What consumes waste and foreign material, such as aged or damaged blood cells and some infections bacteria and viruses? |
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| There are 2 types of _________ that originate in the bone marrow during embryonic life. |
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| The B lymphocyte matures in the ____ ______ and gives rise to ________-producing plasma cells. |
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| Each mature B lymphocyte gives rise to how many types of antibodies? |
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| The T lymphocyte matures in the ____ ____ and gives rise to _______ and ______ T lymphocytes. |
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thymus gland
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| Why are cytotoxic T-cells important? |
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can destroy an infected cell in the inside which antibodies can't do.
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| Why are helper T cells important? |
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| assist in organizing cellular immune responses |
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