Unit 3 Immunity Study Guide

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Define/ describe the following terms:

Pathogen

Histamine

Antigen

Macrophage

T cell

B cell

Antibody

Memory cell

Identify and describe your body’s three lines of defense against disease.

What role does the lymphatic system play in an immune response?

Describe the steps of an adaptive immune response.

How does a secondary response to a pathogen differ from the primary response?

What is autoimmunity? How does it relate to autoimmune diseases and allergies?

Identify some ways that your microbiome can be altered (good and bad). Relate this to fecal transplants.

Explain the hygiene hypothesis and how it relates to treatments such as fecal transplants.

What observations led Edward Jenner to create the smallpox vaccine?

What factors made smallpox eradication possible? Why are diseases like malaria and bubonic plague harder to eradicate?

What is a vaccine? How do they work?

Can you get sick from a vaccine? Explain your answer.

Compare and contrast active and passive immunity.

Describe herd immunity.

Why do we need booster shots?

Why do you need to get the flu vaccine every year?

What is the scientific consensus about vaccines and the supposed link to autism?

What are some of the ways antibiotics kill bacteria and fungi?

What are some side effects of taking antibiotics?

Why don’t antibiotics work against viral infections?

What does variation within a population have to do with antibiotic resistance?

Describe what happens to bacteria while you are taking antibiotics (use the terms susceptible and resistant).

Why is it important to limit the use of antibiotics in livestock?

How can we avoid antibiotic resistance?

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Outline- UNIT 3 Immunity

Immune System

Pathogen

Histamine

Antigen

Macrophage

T cell

B cell

Antibody

Memory cell

Identify and describe your body’s three lines of defense against disease.

What role does the lymphatic system play in an immune response?

Describe the steps of an adaptive immune response.

Compare and contrast active and passive immunity.

Autoimmunity

What is autoimmunity?

How does it relate to autoimmune diseases and allergies?

Allergy

Explain the hygiene hypothesis and how it relates to treatments such as fecal transplants.

Cancer

What are begin, malignant, and metastasis tumors?

Which kind of immune cells are responsible for killing cancer cells?

Hygiene

Why was infection the leading killer in the pre-industrial era?

What problems were solved with Hygiene?

Microbiome

Identify some ways that your microbiome can be altered (good and bad). Relate this to fecal transplants

Vaccines

What observations led Edward Jenner to create the smallpox vaccine?

What factors made smallpox eradication possible? Why are diseases like malaria and bubonic plague harder to eradicate?

What is a vaccine? How do they work?

Can you get sick from a vaccine? Explain your answer.

Why do we need booster shots?

Why do you need to get the flu vaccine every year?

What is the scientific consensus about vaccines and the supposed link to autism?

Describe herd immunity.

Antibiotic Resistance

What are some of the ways antibiotics kill bacteria and fungi?

What are some side effects of taking antibiotics?

Why don’t antibiotics work against viral infections?

What does variation within a population have to do with antibiotic resistance?

Describe what happens to bacteria while you are taking antibiotics (use the terms susceptible and resistant).

Why is it important to limit the use of antibiotics in livestock?

How can we avoid antibiotic resistance?