The Immune System

Question 1

How does the body respond to medicine? Check all that apply.

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A: body is healed from the illness; C: symptoms of the illness are managed; D: body builds immunity to illness

Question 2

Order the steps for vaccination. Pathogens enter the body and the body can remember the pathogen using memory cells, destroying the pathogen.

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D: Step four

Question 3

A weakened or dead form of the pathogen is injected into the body.

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A: Step one

Question 4

Question 4

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A: heart; B: bone marrow; C: kidneys; D: lungs; E: corneas

Question 5

— a type of blood test that measures the antigen compatibility of the organ being donated to that of the tissues of the recipient.

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B: Tissue typing

Question 6

Which medicines are able to heal people from an illness? Check all that apply.

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A: antibiotics; C: antiparasitic; D: antifungal

Question 7

White blood cells produce antibodies that destroy the pathogen.

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C: Step three

Question 8

— medicine that makes the immune system less effective by disrupting the replication process of lymphocytes that produce antibodies.

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A: Immunosuppressants

Question 9

The pathogen is not strong enough to cause disease but its presence in the body signals the body to protect itself against the pathogen.

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B: Step two

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