Chapter 19&14: Immune System

Question 1

What is the function of the immune system?

Answer 1

To fight infection through the production of cells that inactivate foreign cells

Question 2

What are the five types of nonspecific defenses?

Answer 2

Skin, stomach acid, nose hairs, mucual lining, and oil sweet glands

Question 3

What is the main risk of a person who recently undergone a surgery?

Answer 3

The open cut would get an infection

Question 4

What are antibodies?

Answer 4

Compounds that kill bacteria without harming the host cell

Question 5

Who makes antibodies?

Answer 5

Plasma cells (b cells)

Question 6

Who is responsible of defending against viral infection such as influenza and chicken pox?

Answer 6

Antibodies

Question 7

What is a vaccine?

Answer 7

An injection of a weekend form of a pathogen to produce immunity

Question 8

How does vaccination protect an individual from infectious diseases?

Answer 8

By killing the bacteria or infection

Question 9

Antibiotics are used to treat people who are infected with _______________?

Answer 9

Bacteria

Question 10

Antibiotics have no effect on ____________?

Answer 10

Viruses

Question 11

What is AIDS?

Answer 11

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

Question 12

What is the name of the virus that causes AIDS?

Answer 12

HIV

Question 13

Why is it difficult for a person with HIV to fight off a new infection?

Answer 13

Because HIV is always changing and evolving by mutating

Question 14

What is the lyric infection?

Answer 14

A virus that enters the cell and makes copies of it’s self and causes the cell to burst