MIC 205 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION!!

MIC 205 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTION!!
third line of defense


Answers immune response
memory functions


Answers body's ability to remember familiar pathogens and all for a rapid
response
antigens


Answers any molecule or molecular fragment that triggers a specific immune
response
epitope


Answers a defined reigon of a molecule that acts as an antigen
allergies


Answers food and dust can contain antigenic properties
how do antigens enter the body?


Answers cuts/breaks in the skin, direct injection, organ transplants or skin grafts
lymphatic system


Answers network of organs, fluid-return vessels, and clean-up cells that screen the
tissue of the body for foreign antigens

, lymph


Answers blood plasma like liquid that arises from fluid leaked from blood vessels
into the surrounding tissue (accounts for swelling of an allergic reaction)
lymphoid cells


Answers T cells and B cells; develope from red bone marrow
lymphatic vessels


Answers one way system, collects lymph from tissues and returns it to the
circulatory system
lymph nodes


Answers house leukocytes; attack foreign antigens in lymph
Leukocytes


Answers white blood cells
spleen


Answers like a giant lymph node; filters bad stuff from blood
mucosa


Answers a mucus-secreting membrane
MALT


Answers mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue