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Immunity
Question | Answer |
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Pathogen | Causes disease |
Antigen | Surface protein that triggers an immune response (shape) |
Antibodies | Proteins created by WBCs to mark and deactivate viruses (shape) |
Allergy | An immune response to non-pathogenic substance |
Vaccine | Injection that contains weakened, part of a virus, RNA; stimulates an immune response |
Active | Immunity by exposure to pathogen, permanent |
Passive | Immunity by receiving someone else's antibodies for temporary immunity (mother's milk, covid treatment) |
Genetic | Immunity where cells are missing the docking protein for a disease, cannot be infected |
Lymph Nodes | Filter bacteria and viruses and help make WBCs, expand during infection |
HIV | Virus that infects helper T cells and makes them unable to recognize pathogens |
Antibiotic | Medicine that kills bacteria |
AIDS | The condition when HIV has brought the WBC count too low to fight off any infection. |
WBCs | Cells who make antibodies, recognize, mark, and eat pathogens |