Micro Exam 5 Study Guide questions and answers (2025
2026 update) complete test (100% verified)
1. Differentiate between innate and adaptive immunity. - ✔✔ANS
a. The body's defenses against any kind of pathogen describes which type of immunity? - ✔✔ANS Innat
immunity and adaptive immunity
b. The first and second lines of defense against microbial invasion are part of which type of immunity?
✔✔ANS Innate immunity
c. What are a couple of ways your innate immune system protects you from infection? - ✔✔ANS
2. Describe the role of normal microbiota in innate immunity. - ✔✔ANS
a. The presence of normal microbiota that protects the body by competing with pathogens in a variety of way
to prevent pathogens from invading the body is termed? - ✔✔ANS Innate immunity
3. Describe the different types of white blood cells, and name a function of each type. - ✔✔ANS
a. Which type of leukocyte is involved in the body's resistance to a tape worm infection? - ✔✔ANS Eosinoph
, Why are most infections subclinical? - ✔✔ANS the innate immune system cleared it before it got out o
control
An analysis of a patient's blood reveals a highly-elevated eosinophil count. What kind of infection does thi
patient likely have? - ✔✔ANS Parasitic
Where do T cells mature? - ✔✔ANS Thymus
Where do B cells mature? - ✔✔ANS Bone Marrow
4. Definephagocyte. - ✔✔ANS Macrophage, dendritic cell, b-cell
a. Name a few leukocytes capable of phagocytosis? - ✔✔ANS Macrophage, dendritic cell, b-cell
5. Describe the process of phagocytosis, and include the stages of adherence and ingestion. - ✔✔ANS
a. What role does chemotaxis plan in phagocytosis? - ✔✔ANS histamine is released which helps to let th
cell be located through chemical messeges
b. Digestion of an ingested microbe begins with which step of phagocytosis? - ✔✔ANS digestion it begin
with the fusion of a phagolysosome and phagosome
6. Identify six mechanisms microbes use to avoid destruction by phagocytosis. - ✔✔ANS
a. A pathogen can avoid digestion inside a phagocyte by preventing the formation of th
_______________________ after ingestion. - ✔✔ANS Phagolysosome
What advantage does a microbe capable of producing leukocidin have if it infects the body? - ✔✔ANS it coul
defeat the phagocytes of the innate immune system
2026 update) complete test (100% verified)
1. Differentiate between innate and adaptive immunity. - ✔✔ANS
a. The body's defenses against any kind of pathogen describes which type of immunity? - ✔✔ANS Innat
immunity and adaptive immunity
b. The first and second lines of defense against microbial invasion are part of which type of immunity?
✔✔ANS Innate immunity
c. What are a couple of ways your innate immune system protects you from infection? - ✔✔ANS
2. Describe the role of normal microbiota in innate immunity. - ✔✔ANS
a. The presence of normal microbiota that protects the body by competing with pathogens in a variety of way
to prevent pathogens from invading the body is termed? - ✔✔ANS Innate immunity
3. Describe the different types of white blood cells, and name a function of each type. - ✔✔ANS
a. Which type of leukocyte is involved in the body's resistance to a tape worm infection? - ✔✔ANS Eosinoph
, Why are most infections subclinical? - ✔✔ANS the innate immune system cleared it before it got out o
control
An analysis of a patient's blood reveals a highly-elevated eosinophil count. What kind of infection does thi
patient likely have? - ✔✔ANS Parasitic
Where do T cells mature? - ✔✔ANS Thymus
Where do B cells mature? - ✔✔ANS Bone Marrow
4. Definephagocyte. - ✔✔ANS Macrophage, dendritic cell, b-cell
a. Name a few leukocytes capable of phagocytosis? - ✔✔ANS Macrophage, dendritic cell, b-cell
5. Describe the process of phagocytosis, and include the stages of adherence and ingestion. - ✔✔ANS
a. What role does chemotaxis plan in phagocytosis? - ✔✔ANS histamine is released which helps to let th
cell be located through chemical messeges
b. Digestion of an ingested microbe begins with which step of phagocytosis? - ✔✔ANS digestion it begin
with the fusion of a phagolysosome and phagosome
6. Identify six mechanisms microbes use to avoid destruction by phagocytosis. - ✔✔ANS
a. A pathogen can avoid digestion inside a phagocyte by preventing the formation of th
_______________________ after ingestion. - ✔✔ANS Phagolysosome
What advantage does a microbe capable of producing leukocidin have if it infects the body? - ✔✔ANS it coul
defeat the phagocytes of the innate immune system
