White Blood Cells - Lymphocytes

Question 1

Lymphocytes work in a more …….. way than phagocytes.

Answer 1

Lymphocytes work in a more specific way than phagocytes.

Question 2

What do Lymphocytes do? Why are they more specific in the way they work, compared to phagocytes?

Answer 2

They create antibodies. They work in a more specific way because where as phagocytes can engulf many different pathogens at once, lymphocytes only create antibodies for one pathogen.

Question 3

What is the name of some lymphocytes that stay after fighting the infection, that remember the pathogen and how to get rid of it?

Answer 3

‘Memory cells’

Question 4

What do memory cells do? What is this known as?

Answer 4

They remember the pathogen and how to fight it, so they are quicker to get rid of it, so you don’t even know you have it because it’s gone before the symptoms start. This is known as immunity.

Question 5

All cells have unique proteins on their surface called?

Answer 5

Antigens.

Question 6

When lymphocytes come across antigens they don’t recognise as yours what do they do?

Answer 6

They produce antibodies that attach to the the antigens, this marks the cell.

Question 7

If a cell is ‘marked’ by a lymphocyte, what does a phagocyte then do?

Answer 7

It recognises that the cell is marked and engulfs then digests it.