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27.4 Immune Response-1

This document contains a chapter review on immune system vocabulary and concepts. It includes definitions and examples of infectious disease, pathogen, inflammatory response, antigen, humoral immunity, and cell-mediated immunity. It then has a 7 question section review that tests understanding of how infectious diseases spread, nonspecific immune defenses, the importance of distinguishing self from other, how HIV damages the immune system, why AIDS is both an infectious disease and immune disorder, how nonspecific defenses differ from the immune system, and how toxic chemicals can cause disease with an example.

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27.4 Immune Response-1

This document contains a chapter review on immune system vocabulary and concepts. It includes definitions and examples of infectious disease, pathogen, inflammatory response, antigen, humoral immunity, and cell-mediated immunity. It then has a 7 question section review that tests understanding of how infectious diseases spread, nonspecific immune defenses, the importance of distinguishing self from other, how HIV damages the immune system, why AIDS is both an infectious disease and immune disorder, how nonspecific defenses differ from the immune system, and how toxic chemicals can cause disease with an example.

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Name _______________

Class Period __________


Date ________________
Chapter 27.4 Vocabulary & Lesson Review

Read pages 959 → 965


Define the following vocabulary terms functions from your textbook and
research!
Write a sentence that makes scientific sense from your explanation
(function) in the book and your research!
Complete the 27.4 Section Review below the vocabulary.
Score ____/32
1. (+2) Infectious disease:
a. Function: caused by organisms and pathogens that live in some people's
bodies that in certain conditions can be passed between person to person

b. Sentence: Infectious diseases can be caused by things like


bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites

2. (+2) Pathogen:
a. Function: they are responsible for the causing of disease right
as then enter your body instead of only coming up when your
immune system is weakened

b. Sentence:
A pathogen can come in many different way it can be in the the form of a
bacteria or even a virus
3. (+2) Inflammatory response:
a. Function:Its the body’s response to an affection, and it's a
signal for the immune system to help repair whatever is hurt

b. Sentence:
It normally happens when the tissues are injured in the body the
damaged cells release a chemical making the tissue inflamed

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Class Period __________
Date ________________
4. (+2) Antigen:
a. Function: it's the chemical that releases antibodies to go and
fight off infections

b. Sentence: When this comes into play it means your immune


system doesn't recognize the substance that has entered your
body

5. (+2) Humoral immunity:


a. Function: it mainly deals with all unknown substances outside
of a cell that are just circulating around in the body
b. Sentence:
They use help from antibodies to circulate throughout the body tho
the antibodies don’t server more then there transportation
6. (+2) Cell-mediated immunity:
a. Function: Is to separate the virus infected cells and the non
infected cells

b. Sentence: they also defend against fungi and other bacteria or


other things that can make their host sick

27.4 Section Review

1. (+4) What are the ways in which infectious diseases are


spread?
a. -Person to person contact or just the germs of one
person to another

2. (+3) Describe three of the nonspecific defenses against


infection?
a. _infammatory response
b. _antigen

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Date ________________
c. _cell-mediated immunity

3. (+2) Why is it important for the immune system to distinguish


“self” from “other”?
a. _ The the immune system doesn't start to attack its own
cells which would become a chain of events and it would
affect the whole body

4. (+3) How does HIV damage the immune system?


a. _ It uses the reproductiveness in the cells to replicate the
virus and this it makes the cell explode and when to many
explode then the tissue swell up

5. (+4) Why can AIDS be classified as both an infectious disease


and an immune system disorder?
a. _It is a immune disorder because it attacks the cells and
replicate in the cells causing problems in the immune
system and its a infectious disease because it can be
spread from person to person to

6. (+2)How are nonspecific defenses against disease different


from the immune system?
a. _They repel all micro viruses equality and don’t have a
specific attack that they will only fight off

7. (+2) How can toxic chemicals cause disease? Cite a specific


example:
a. _Becasue just like diseases they can cause harm to the
body when they come into contact with us in our bodys

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