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Immunology is the study of

physiological mechanisms that are used to defend the body from invasion by foreign or
infectious agents




In response to diseases caused by infectious agents, the body develops cells dedicated to defense,
these form...

the immune system




protective/adaptive immunity takes time to develop while ________________________ can
_________ _______- and cause disease

microorganisms can rapidly multiply




Immunity involves two responses:

1. Flexible but specific defenses of the adaptive immune response

2. Fixed defenses of the innate immune response




In adaptive =
B and T cells
(you MUST inheret something from your parents)

, PCB 3233 Exam 1 (Latest 2026/ 2027
Update) Review| Questions &
Answers |100% verified | Grade A


To make B and T cells you need

three segments of DNA that make a gene.




During vaccination we are given the strongest

primary adaptive immune response




microbes survive on ..... and release

-animal and plant products

-release digestive enzymes




microbes grow on

living tissues (extracellular) where they are bathed in nutrients




other intracellular microbes infect animal/human cells, utilizing

host cell sources

, PCB 3233 Exam 1 (Latest 2026/ 2027
Update) Review| Questions &
Answers |100% verified | Grade A

Some microbes are ________ and even __________ (ex:_____________)

some are harmless and helpful

ex: E. Coli




What is protecive immunity?

People who survive a specific infection become immune to it




To provide protective immunity, the immune system must first

engage the microorganism




What is the lag time between infection and protection?
around 7 days




True or false, the first infection is the most dangerous one

true




true or false, Disease is NOT prevented by prior exposure to an attenuated/killed infectious agent
false

, PCB 3233 Exam 1 (Latest 2026/ 2027
Update) Review| Questions &
Answers |100% verified | Grade A


Who recognized that only those who had recovered from the plague could nurse the sick without
becoming sick again?

430 BC- Thucydides




During the fifteenth century- Chinese and Turks used what to induce immunity? What is this
called?

dried crusts from smallpox pustules (inhaled or inserted into small cuts in the skin "variolation")




Origins of immunology attributed to who? What did he discover?
-Edward Jenner

-Discovered in 1796 that cowpox "vaccinia" protected from human smallpox




a pathogen is

Any organism with potential to cause disease

ex: Influenza and typhoid bacillus




Opportunistic pathogens cause disease if
the body's defenses are weakened or it gets into a part of the body it isn't normally found.

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