Lab 3 - Immune System - 4

Question 1

• What do histamine trigger?

Answer 1

nearby blood vessels to dilate (at sites of damage) and gets the supplies it needs to fight the infection at a faster rate.

Question 2

• What is Adaptive Immunity? Is the response slow or fast?

Answer 2

is a slower response – also known as the “acquired response” - which happens after Innate Immunity.

Destroys pathogens, but pathogen specific, also provides long lasting protection.

Question 3

• Antibodies defend against infection in body fluids called what?

Answer 3

Humoral Response (in Adaptive Immunity)

Question 4

• Cell-meditated response is defined as what?

Answer 4

Cytotoxic cells defend against infection in body cells (in Adaptive Immunity)

Question 5

• What does a pathogen encounter when it breaches an insects barrier defenses?

Answer 5

The internal immune defenses

Question 6

• Insect immune cells produce a set of what?

Answer 6

Recognition proteins

Question 7

• Body secretions create an environment that is hostile to many what?

Answer 7

Pathogens

Question 8

• What is a molecule again?

Answer 8

Two atoms combined by chemical bonds