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bio163 Chapter 16
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Antigen | anything that is not you (foreign). bacteria cell walls, Capsules, pilli, and flagella |
| Exogenous | Outside antigens |
| Endogenous | inside antigens |
| What does specific antigens bind with? | receptors |
| Specificity | Immune cells are not able to react with self antigen . self reactive cells are destroyed |
| Characteristics of adaptive/specific immunity: | 1. Specific 2. inducible and clonal 3. self/noself recognition 4. memory 5. ? |
| memory | immune response to a specific antigen, fast and strong upon exposure |
| B lymphocytes | in the bone marrow |
| T lymphocytes | in the thymus |
| Humoral | Targets antigens in blood or intestinal fluids |
| T cellS | Target intracellular pathways(viruses) |
| To types of T cells: | Helper & Cytotoxic |
| Cytotoxic | Directly attack the infected cells |
| Only ____ Cells can make antibodies | B cells |