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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what does the immune system do? | protects the body from diseases. |
| What is a disease? | any change that disrupts that normal function of the body that isn't an injury |
| What is the Germ Theory? | Explain that diseases were caused by foreign bodies introduced to the bloodstream |
| How are diseases spread? | air, physical contact, water, food, sexualy |
| what can cause diseases? | viruses, bacteria, protists, worms, fungi |
| What is an antigen? | a foreign body in the body |
| whats the first response to a antigen? | to release a phahocyte to surround the antigen |
| what do T cells do? | to destroy the antigen |
| what do B cells do? | produce anti-bodies that are simular to the T cells to destroy other antigens in blood stream. |
| why don't you catch the same thing twice? | body stores memory B and T cells to fight future antigens. |