5.2 - Phagosytosis

Question 1

What are the two types of white blood cells?

Answer 1

1. Phagocytes
2. Lymphocytes

Question 2

A summery of what phagocytes do:

Answer 2

Ingest and destroy the pathogen by a process called phagocytosis before it can cause harm

Question 3

What are lymphocytes involved in?

Answer 3

Immune response

Question 4

What cell carries out phagocytosis

Answer 4

Phagocytes

Question 5

What makes the phagocytes move towards the pathogen?

Answer 5

Chemicals products of pathogens or dead, damaged and abnormal calls act as attractants

Question 6

When the phagocytes engulf the pathogen to form a vesicle called what?

Answer 6

A phagosome

Question 7

What are the enzymes called in lysosomes?

Answer 7

Lysozymes

Question 8

What do lysosomes first do when meeting the phagosome?

Answer 8

Fuse

Question 9

How to lysozymes destroy the pathogen?

Answer 9

They ingest bacteria by hydrolysis of their cell walls

Question 10

What happens to the soluble products from the breakdown of the pathogen

Answer 10

Absorbed into the cytoplasm of the phagocyte