IMMUNE RESPONSE IN BIOCHEMISTRY QUIZ

During exposure to a foreign invader, there are more __________ present in the vertebrate body than before exposure

macrophages and antigens

all of these

antibodies

lymphocytes

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What are the solutions prepared from weakened or dead microorganisms, viruses, or toxins that provide some immunity from diseases?

Histamines

Drugs

Antibiotics

Vaccines

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What is the result of an abnormal response of the immune system to part of a person's own body?

Cancer

Passive immunity

An autoimmune disease

An allergic response

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Plasma cells produce thousands of __________ that are released into the bloodstream

virus fragments

antibodies

antigens

helper T cells

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What is a protein produced by host cells infected by viruses?

Vaccine

Histamine

Antiserum

Interferon

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Which of the following immune cells would have an especially low count in a patient with advanced AIDS?

Killer T lymphocytes

B lymphocytes

Helper T lymphocyte

None of these

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Polysaccharides on the surface of infecting microorganisms can also activate complement directly in the absence of

antibody via the alternative pathway

antigen via the alternative pathway

antibody via metabolic pathway

None of these

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To detect a humoral immune response to influenza virus, it is possible to measure

cytotoxicity of virus-infected cells in tissue culture

plasma cytokine levels

dividing T cells in the draining lymph nodes

serum antibody titer

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If a person is vaccinated against a disease sometime in the past, which of the following is currently in your body?

All of these

The disease organism itself and antigens for the disease organism

A very high level of antibodies against the disease antigens

Memory B lymphocytes for the antigen of this disease organism

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Immunological memory is due to

long lived B cells that secrete a specific antigen

long lived B cells that secrete a specific antibody

short lived helper T cells that signal macrophage to divide

short lived macrophage that can recognize specific pathogens

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