IMMUNE RESPONSE IN BIOCHEMISTRY QUIZ

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

Drugs

Vaccines

Antibiotics

Histamines

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

antibodies

lymphocytes

all of these

macrophages and antigens

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

An allergic response

Passive immunity

An autoimmune disease

Cancer

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

rat

goat

mouse of the same genetic background (strain)

mouse of a different strain

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Immunogenicity

is not a property of antibodies

depends on the ability of the native antigen to be presented by MHC

is usually a property of self antigens such as eye tissue

is not a property of haptens

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

antigen via the alternative pathway

antibody via the alternative pathway

None of these

antibody via metabolic pathway

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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

serum antibody titer

plasma cytokine levels

dividing T cells in the draining lymph nodes

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Immunological memory is due to

short lived helper T cells that signal macrophage to divide

short lived macrophage that can recognize specific pathogens

long lived B cells that secrete a specific antibody

long lived B cells that secrete a specific antigen

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

Lymph ducts that enter and exit the nodes and Lymph fluid

All of these

Huge numbers of white blood cells

Trapped viruses that have been roaming the body

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Antibodies bound to an invading microorganism activate the complement system via

classical pathway

Entner-Doudoroff pathway

Embden Meyerhof pathway

metabolic pathway

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