IMMUNE RESPONSE IN BIOCHEMISTRY QUIZ

The immune response to a booster vaccine is called a(n)

innate response

secondary response

primary response

cellular response

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Which of the following is in the lymph nodes of a person battling a cold virus?

Huge numbers of white blood cells

Trapped viruses that have been roaming the body

All of these

Lymph ducts that enter and exit the nodes and Lymph fluid

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Immunological memory is due to

long lived B cells that secrete a specific antibody

short lived helper T cells that signal macrophage to divide

long lived B cells that secrete a specific antigen

short lived macrophage that can recognize specific pathogens

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In cellular immunity, T lymphocytes are responsible for the recognition and killing of foreign invaders. The cells are

None of these

both (a) and (b)

killer T cells

cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL)

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

plasma cytokine levels

cytotoxicity of virus-infected cells in tissue culture

dividing T cells in the draining lymph nodes

serum antibody titer

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

antibody via metabolic pathway

None of these

antibody via the alternative pathway

antigen via the alternative pathway

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Antibodies bound to an invading microorganism activate the complement system via

metabolic pathway

Entner-Doudoroff pathway

Embden Meyerhof pathway

classical pathway

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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

None of these

B lymphocytes

Helper T lymphocyte

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

lymphocytes

antibodies

all of these

macrophages and antigens

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To elicit the best antibodies to mouse MHC I, it should be injected into a

mouse of the same genetic background (strain)

rat

goat

mouse of a different strain

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