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Contents
2 ANTIGENS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
2.1 Antigens and immunogenicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
2.2 T- lymphocytes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
3 IMMUNOGLOBULINS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
3.1 Immunoglobulin- structure, types, distribution, biological and chemical
properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
3.2 Theories of antibody production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
3.3 Monoclonal Antibodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
3.4 Polyclonal Antibodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
3.5 Complement system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
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6 Miscellenous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
1. Overview of the Immune System
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1.1 A Historical Perspective of Immunology
1. Ringworm is an example of which type of C. I don’t know
infectious agent?
D. I don’t care
A. Bacteria
B. Virus 5. The glycoprotein that sits on pathogenic
surfaces and elicits an immune response is
C. Fungi known as
D. Protozoa A. antigen
2. an antibiotic produced by a fungus B. histamine
A. Bacillus anthracis C. antibody
B. Staphyloccocus aureus D. anticytosis
C. Helicobacter pylori
6. B cells develop immunocompetence in the:
D. Penicillum chrysogenum
A. Bone marrow
3. Applied the Germ Theory of Disease in
B. Thymus
medical procedures
C. Blood
A. Ignaz Semmelweis
D. Thyroid
B. Emil A. von Behring
C. Joseph Lister 7. Discovered microbes that produces ace-
D. Hans Krebs tone and butanol
A. Louis Pasteur
4. Cell Theory-all living things are composed
of cells B. Robert Hooke
A. True C. Carl Woese
B. False D. Chaim Weizmann
1. C 2. D 3. C 4. A 5. A 6. A 7. D
1.1 A Historical Perspective of Immunology 3
8. Helper T cells are very important because 13. Developed a diptheria antitoxin
they.. A. Emil A. von Behring
8. D 9. B 10. A 11. A 12. A 13. A 14. C 15. B 16. C 17. A 18. C 19. A
1.1 A Historical Perspective of Immunology 4
19. Variolation was first introduced by C. They make your body produce anti-
A. Chinese gens
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C. cow pox
A. Macrophage ingesting antigen before
feeding to T-cells D. chicken pox
20. C 21. B 22. D 23. D 24. D 25. C 26. C 27. C 28. B 29. D 30. A
1.2 Virology and Immunity 5
31. D 32. C 1. B 2. D 3. B 4. B 5. C 6. A 7. C 8. C
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B. B cells mate with
C. Natural killer cells C. Find enough food
D. Macrophages D. Find a suitable habitat
10. The first characteristic used by virologists 15. The reason why the Influenza vaccination
to classify viruses is the must be taken every year.
A. Shape of the virus A. Viruses mutate.
B. Size of the virus B. Viruses cannot reproduce.
C. Type of nucleic acid in the virus
C. Host cells kill viruses.
D. Type of replication cycle
D. Vaccines make corporations money.
11. A world-wide outbreak of a disease
16. Medications that are used to control and
A. epidemic reduce the length of a viral disease.
B. pandemic A. Antibiotics
C. endemic
B. Antigens
D. none of above
C. Antiviral drugs
12. Term for any disease-causing agent D. Antiseptics
A. Pathogen
17. Name for the type of protein produced by
B. Vector the immune system that will give you im-
C. Bacteria munity to the virus the next time it enters
D. Virus your body.
A. Antibody
13. An injection of a virus to help the body
build immunity to that virus is a B. Antigen
A. Antibiotic C. Antibiotic
B. Antiviral drug D. Antiviral
2. What do scientists call bacteria and D. let food into the body.
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C. Macrophage
20. What system collects fluid that is lost by
D. Killer B Cells
the circulatory system and works with
15. The treatment of parasitic diseases like the immune system to scan that fluid for
lice, fleas, and bed bugs is: pathogens?
A. circulatory
A. Chlorox Wipes
B. digestive
B. Antifungals
C. nervous
C. Antiparasitic drugs
D. lymphatic
D. Antivirals
21. The purpose of the immune system is to
16. A nonspecific defensive response of the
body to tissue injury characterized by di-
lation of blood vessels and swelling. A. help germs invade your body
A. immunity B. make your nose run
B. interferon C. fight of sickness
C. immunization D. give your diarrhea
14. C 15. C 16. D 17. B 18. A 19. B 20. D 21. C 22. C 23. A 24. C
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25. D 26. D 27. C 28. A 29. D 30. A 31. D 32. B 33. D 34. D 35. A
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36. What type of cells are involved in the hu- D. Repels bodies
moral immune response?
A. B-cells 42. Which of these will last the longest in the
blood after a primary response?
B. T-cells
A. antibodies
C. Helper-T cells
B. antigens
D. Macrophages
C. memory lymphocytes
37. Which antibody is part of B cell receptor?
D. antibiotics
A. IgA
B. IgD 43. Cause of allergies (such as pet, food, or
C. IgE seasonal).
D. IgM A. Viruses
B. Bacteria
38. What happens first in the inflammatory re-
sponse? C. Over reaction by the body to sub-
A. macrophages arrive and consume stances
pathogens D. Fungus
B. histamine is released by injured mast
cells 44. A preparation made from a weakened or
killed pathogen is called
C. arteries to injury dialate
A. a vaccine
D. veins from the injury constrict
B. an allergen
39. What is the largest outer defense of the
body? C. an antigen
36. A 37. B 38. B 39. D 40. B 41. A 42. C 43. C 44. A 45. A 46. C
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46. The system keeps the body healthy. 52. HIV binds to specific proteins on cells.
A. musculoskeletal A. B cells
47. When foreign material enters the body, 53. Proteins produced by B cells and designed
one way the immune system responds is to mark antigens to be destroyed, specific
by to the antigen.
A. lowering the body temperature A. Antigens
B. producing excess red blood cells B. Active Immunity
C. shutting down the circulatory system C. Antibodies
D. producing antibodies D. Antibiotics
48. Which of the following is part of the adap- 54. Lymph nodes are found in the
tive immunity? A. neck
A. Inflammation B. groin
B. Skin C. armpits
C. Macrophages D. all of the above
D. T cells 55. Examples of 1st line of defense.
49. A disease that is not caused by a pathogen A. Phagocytes and Lymphocytes
A. Vaccine B. skin, breathing passages, mouth and
stomach
B. Passive Immunity
C. redness, swelling, higher temp.
C. Vaccination
D. T cells and B cells working
D. Noninfectious disease
56. What can happen when germs invade the
50. What organ is all over your body that is in body?
the immune system?
A. biodiversity
A. Brain
B. infection
B. Lymph natics/Lymph nodes
C. eukaryote
C. Spleen
D. none of above
D. Skin
57. Saliva, tears, and nasal secretion contain
51. The part of foreign materials that cause the enzyme lysozyme which breaks down
a response from the immune system are bacterial cells walls therefore killing bac-
called teria.
A. Antigens A. Chemical Barriers
B. Active Immunity B. Skin
C. Antibodies C. Interferon
D. Antibiotics D. Component Proteins
47. D 48. D 49. D 50. B 51. A 52. C 53. C 54. D 55. B 56. B 57. A
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58. What are vaccines made of? 64. All of the following are aspects of inflam-
A. White blood cells mation except:
B. good bacteria A. constriction of blood vessels
C. fake pathogens B. phagocytes and neutrophils produce
cytokines that signal the brain to produce
D. protein a fever
59. Which type of cell will remember what the C. increase in permeability of blood ves-
antigen looks like and produce a rapid sec- sels
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ondary response? D. pain
A. Plasma B cells
65. Virus-infected cell secrete a protein named
B. Memory B cells interferon, this protein will alert neigh-
C. Plasma T cells boring cells of the virus, these cell will
D. Memory T cells produce antivirus in them to help prevent
viruses infections.
60. Getting these when you’re young helps A. Chemical Barriers
your immune system fight off diseases:
B. Skin
A. stickers
C. Interferon
B. bandages
D. Component Proteins
C. shots (immunizations)
D. cough drops 66. Which of the following is not apart of your
body’s first line of defense?
61. Provided by antibodies: A. Skin
A. humoral immunity B. Mucus
B. cell-mediated immunity C. Stomach Acid
C. inflammatory response D. Antibodies
D. innate immune response
67. An increase in body temperature when
62. What is the body’s first line (non-specific) sick.
of defense against infection by foreign or- A. infection
ganisms?
B. fever
A. antibodies
C. skin
B. lymph nodes
D. none of above
C. white blood cells
D. the skin 68. Leukocytes are found in lots of places, in-
cluding an organ in your belly that filters
63. immunity occurs when an individual re- blood and help fight infections known as
ceives antibodies. the
A. active A. heart
B. passive B. kidneys
C. false C. spleen
D. cell mediated D. brain
69. This type of cell inspects cells for antigens C. Ringworm, athlete’s foot, thrush
and kills any cells that display the foreign D. Strep throat, colds, and flu
antigens.
80. A vaccines main goal is to: 86. The primary purpose of vaccines is to
A. make people sick A. induce inflammation
B. prevent disease B. activate the immune system to pro-
C. start an epidemic duce memory cells
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immune response.
A. thymus
A. Innate
B. pancreas
B. Adaptive
C. bone marrow
C. Cell Mediated
D. thryoid
D. Humoral
82. Which of the following is a first line of de-
fense? 88. The system returns interstitial fluid to
the blood stream.
A. Antibodies
A. ureters
B. mucus in you nose
B. spleen
C. Red blood cells
C. thymus
D. your white blood cells
D. lymphatic
83. The immune system works with all of the
89. Billy is experiencing a red bump and some
following system EXCEPT
swelling on his ankle as a result of a bee
A. the integumentary sting. This is an example of
B. the lymphatic A. Antibody production
C. the muscular B. A specific immune response
D. the cardiovascular C. The bees beginning their final master
plan to take over the universe.
84. Which is NOT considered FIRST line of de-
fense? D. Non-specific immune response
A. White Blood Cells 90. What is a immune system function
B. Skin A. Doing stuff
C. Hair B. breaks down waste
D. Mucous Membranes C. Eliminate pathogens from body
D. It protects us
85. What is the secondary circulatory system
that helps the body fight pathogens and 91. Which of the following are proteins that
maintain its fluid balance? fight off diseases?
A. lymphatic system A. Antibodies
B. circulatory system B. B Cells
C. blood vessels C. Antigens
D. none of above D. T Cells
103. T cell’s job. 108. White blood cells are the main cells of
A. identify and distinguish type of the immune system. Where are they pro-
pathogen duced?
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C. engulf pathogens C. Stomach
D. cause one to sneeze D. None of the above
104. What is the job of the spleen? 109. are white blood cells that produce an-
A. Helps transport blood tibodies.
105. Sometimes temporary protection against 110. Cells of the immune system are able to
a disease is needed, this protection occur respond to the presence of invading organ-
when antibodies are made in an animal or isms because your immune cells recognize
other person and then transfer to the body. the
This is called A. antigens present on the invaders
A. Passive Immunity B. antibodies present in invading
B. Active Immunity pathogens
C. Nonspecific Immunity C. DNA pattern in the nuclei of viruses
D. Specific Immunity D. antibiotics released from microbes
106. In some individuals, the immune system 111. What specific part of the antigen receptor
attacks substances such as grass pollen is responsible for the variation?
that are usually harmless, resulting in A. The variable regions of light chain and
A. an allergic reaction heavy chain
B. a form of cancer B. The constant region
C. an insulin imbalance C. The variable region on the light chain
D. a mutation only
D. The macrophages
107. Certain microbes, foreign tissues, and
some cancerous cells can cause immune re- 112. Is the first barrier against infection fight
sponses in the human body because all off all pathogens with no specific re-
three contain sponse.
A. antigens A. Chemical barrier
B. enzymes B. Skin
124. What is a combination of body defenses 130. These molecules are responsible for induc-
made up of cells, tissues, and organs that ing a fever during the innate immune re-
fight pathogens in the body? sponse.
A. immunity A. interferons
B. immune system B. cytokines
C. lymphocytes C. complement
D. none of above D. antibodies
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125. An organism that causes disease 131. As part of the immune system, white
blood cells fight germs. Another name for
A. Pathogen
white blood cells is:
B. Infectious Disease
A. Rhinovirus
C. Phagocyte
B. Leukocytes
D. Antigen
C. Glands
126. Which tissue produces lymphocytes and D. Nodes
filters out impurities and harmful sub-
stances? 132. What do B cells produce?
A. spleen A. antigens
B. tonsils B. macrophages
C. T cells
C. thymus
D. antibodies
D. lymph nodes
133. How is the secondary immune response
127. Viruses multiply:
different than the primary immune re-
A. By conjungation sponse?
B. By taking over a cell’s functions A. faster and more antibodies produced
C. By binary fission B. faster and higher fever
D. Both sexually and asexually C. more antibodies and more phloem
128. Any substance that causes an allergy is D. more blood filtered through liver
a(n): 134. Which of these can you get from germs?
A. Allergen A. cold
B. Irritant B. a broken arm
C. Virus C. nosebleed
D. Carcinogen D. none of above
129. What is the term for a strong response to 135. What do memory cells do?
a harmless antigen in the environment? A. Kills the virus
A. An allergy B. Eats the virus
B. Cell-mediated immunity C. Patrol the area and make the immune
C. An autoimmune disease system work faster next time.
D. Inflammatory response D. Makes antibodies
136. What is the Immune system? What human body system contains all of
A. The body’s defense system these components?
137. Passive immunity can be acquired 142. What is the body’s response to injury
through which of the following methods? or disease, resulting in a condition of
swelling, pain, heat, and redness?
A. vaccination
A. inflammation
B. infection
B. infection
C. mother’s milk
C. death
D. topical cream
D. none of above
138. can make you sick.
143. How do you maintain a healthy Immune
A. Germs
System?
B. Nutrients
A. smoke
C. Biodiversity
B. exercise regularly
D. none of above
C. eat junk food
139. What process describes the stimulation D. drink
of one B cell to produce many memory
B cells and memory effector (Active) B 144. Which statement about B cells is false?
cells? A. B cells mature in bone marrow
A. secondary immune response B. B cells have receptors for specific anti-
B. clonal selection gens
C. fever C. Activated B cells produce antibodies
D. the complement D. Activated B cells destroy cancer cells.
140. Which cells have the ability to stimulate 145. How do germs enter the body?
the humoral and cell mediated immune re- A. From touching a mucous membrane
sponses? B. From not washing your hands
A. B cells C. a. From touching your face
B. Cytotoxic T cells D. All of the above
C. Helper T cells
146. Resistance to disease and pathogens.
D. phagocytes
A. immunity
141. All of the following are contained within B. immunization
one human body system:spleen, bone mar-
row, lymph nodes, thymus gland, and C. histamine
white blood cells circulating in the blood. D. vaccine
147. What is the Immune System made of? C. talks to the helper T cell about what to
A. cells destroy
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A. A bacterium C. Vaccine
C. Helper T cells 164. Are found in the blood and they help
D. Immunocompetent macrophages phagocytes to bind better to pathogens
this complement proteins sometimes form
169. Which antibody is most abundant in the 174. A disorder in which the immune system
serum? (produced during secondary im- is overly sensitive to a foreign substance
mune response) A. Allergy
A. IgA B. Allergen
B. IgG C. Passive Immunity
C. IgM D. Active Immunity
D. IgE 175. This allows us to develop an artificial im-
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munity to a disease without ever getting
170. Leukocytes are also called: sick from the disease.
A. White Blood Cells A. antibiotics
B. Red Blood Cells B. vaccines
C. Pathogens C. blood transfusions
C. mucus and skin 177. What are the functions of Lymph Nodes?
D. antibodies A. Kills old blood cells
B. Produces purple blood cells
172. A substance or part of a substance (liv-
C. Produces blood cells
ing or nonliving) that the immune system
recognizes as foreign and activates the im- D. Filters the blood
mune system and reacts with immune cells 178. What initiates an immune response?
or their products, such as antibodies.
A. antibody
A. pathogen
B. antigen
B. allergen
C. histamine
C. antigen D. antibiotic
D. antibody
179. Which of the following is not a typical
way for a person to catch a disease?
173. A molecule that helps the immune system
recognizes body cells is the A. From pathogens in the air.
A. Antigen B. From pathogens in boiled water.
C. Antibiotics
D. From physical contact with an infected
D. MHC marker person.
A. B-cells D. bacteria
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C. cancer
able to identify antigens because they are
presented on the protein outside cells. D. autoimmune disorder
A. major histocompatibility complex 198. Getting these when you’re young helps
(MHC) your immune system fight off diseases
B. voltage gated ion channels
C. sodium potassium pump A. stickers
D. phospholipids B. shots (immunizations)
193. Proteins called can attach to the anti- C. bandages
gen and make it useless. D. cough drops
A. antigen
199. What are the 2 basic types of leuko-
B. antibodies
cytes?
C. B cells
A. phagocytes and lymphocytes
D. T cells
B. white blood cells and red blood cells
194. The process of engulfing a bacterium or C. neutrophil and bacteria
virus particle by a macrophage is known
as D. None of the above
A. Phagocytosis 200. What is the antigen presenting receptor
B. Pinocytosis on the surface of T cells called?
C. T cell A. MHC
D. Dendritic cell B. TLR
195. Which is a failure of immune tolerance? C. GPCR
A. autoimmune disorders D. None of the above
B. allergies 201. What causes immunity?
C. immunodeficiencies
A. production of antigens by helper t cells
D. none of above
C. liver A. antibodies
D. stomach B. skin
213. Are located in all lymphatic tissues and 219. What is a virus?
can be thought as antibodies factories. A. A infectious disease that attacks the
A. Helper T-Cells body
B. T-cells B. A cancer cell that can kill you
C. B-Cells C. A infectious cell that heals the body
D. Antibodie D. A cell that reverses red blood cell
growth
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214. Which of the following will not help your
220. Define Immune System
immune system?
A. Looks for broken bones
A. playing sports video games
B. Foreign invader
B. eating healthy food
C. Fights germs
C. exercising
D. Help you breath
D. regularly washing your hands
221. What cell is “in charge” and identifies the
215. These cells bind to antigen presenting specific pathogen?
cells signaling them to produce cytokines A. B-cells
that stimulate B and T cells to divide
B. Immune response
A. helper T cell
C. T-cells
B. mast cell D. Macrophage
C. cytotoxic T cell
222. What are organisms that are so small
D. plasma cells that they can only be seen through a mi-
croscope?
216. d line of defense.
A. germs
A. Barriers
B. pathogens
B. Inflammatory response
C. antibodies
C. Immune response
D. none of above
D. T cells and B cells
223. Which of these is part of the innate im-
217. Which cells produce immunity? mune system (non specific)?
A. helper T cells A. antibodies
B. regulatory T cells B. B lymphocytes
225. Are cuts and sores the only way to get C. Cytotoxic T cells
past the skin? D. Humoral cells
236. How do antibodies fight antigens? 241. What common diseases can affect the Im-
A. Specific binding sites on antibodies mune system
join with specific markers on antigens A. Asthma
B. Antibodies ignore ‘good’ cells and at- B. Stomach Bug
tack ‘bad’ ones
C. SMOKE
C. Antibodies destroy all the cells they
D. Lung Cancer
come in contact with
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D. Both 1 and 2 242. What is one of the functions of white
blood cells?
237. How does the immune system contribute
to Homeostasis? A. To carry oxygen in the blood stream
239. An infection in the body might result in a 244. It’s the protein produced by a B cell
sudden of the immune system that destroys a
pathogen.
A. decrease in the activity of antigens
produced by the mitochondria A. T Cell
246. Collective term for the defense activities B. the white blood cells neutralise the tox-
of the immune system. ins in the vaccine
B. Red blood cell reproduction process 262. Where are white blood cells made?
C. A protein that inhibits the reproduction A. Bone marrow
of viruses B. Red Blood Cells
D. A Pokemon C. Heart
257. Name two disease that associated with D. Veins
the Immune System?
263. Antigens prepared in such a way that
A. cancer & sepsis when injected or taken orally they induce
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B. arthritis & salmonella active immunity without causing disease.
C. asthma & sepsis A. antigen
D. salmonella & cancer B. spleen
C. B cell
258. A condition in which a person’s immune
system is overly sensitive to environmen- D. vaccine
tal substances that are normally harm-
264. What do white blood cells create to fight
less.
infections?
A. Allergy
A. Antibodies
B. Antigen
B. Leukocytes
C. Bacteria
C. Antibiotics
D. Virus
D. Antigens
259. Which of the following is NOT a granulo-
265. What percentage of infected people
cyte?
would die after smallpox virus infection?
A. neutrophil
A. 13%
B. basophil
B. 30%
C. eosinophil
C. 33%
D. macrophage
D. 3%
260. What are the substances that send the
266. Produces antibodies to fight the antigen
immune system into action?
and marks the antigen
A. antigens
A. Macraphage
B. antibodies B. T Cells
C. vaccines C. B Cells
D. none of above D. none of above
261. An occurs when a virus or microor- 267. What is the role of the immune system?
ganism enters the body.
A. To pump blood throughout the body
A. infection
B. To protect the body from disease-
B. ATP causing agents
C. allergies C. To contain disease-causing organisms
D. none of above to a single area of the body
D. To give Mr. Wael something to test us 274. Immune responses upon a second expo-
over sure to a pathogen are due to the activa-
tion of
273. Vaccines protect: 279. The purpose of the immune system is to:
A. vaccinated person A. help germs invade your body
B. those too young to be vaccinated B. fight off sikness
C. those who have weak immune system C. make your nose run
D. all of the above D. give you diarrhea
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281. Edward Jenner succeeded in creating a B. Non-specific
vaccine against smallpox by injecting pa-
C. Specific
tients with material of which disease?
D. none of above
A. Small pox
B. Cow pox 287. What are the two types of white blood
cells?
C. Cattle Virus
A. Phagocytes and pathogens
D. Measles Virus
B. Phagocytes and lymphocytes
282. The smallpox vaccine was developed us-
ing fluids from which other disease? C. Lymphocytes and pathogens
291. A dangerous immune response to a safe 297. Foreign cells in the body carry foreign
substance. proteins that the body recognises as ‘non-
self’. These are called:
296. which one is not part of cell mediated im- 301. Another name for white blood cells is:
munity, specific response?
A. Blood
A. Helper T cells
B. Photosyntesis
B. Cytotoxic T cells
C. Suppressor T cells C. Leukocytes
D. Macrophages D. Body
302. Which best describes the relationship be- 307. What are one of the ways you can keep
tween antibodies and antigen? your Immune system healthy?
A. One antibody can affect several differ- A. Drinking lots of soda
ent antigens. B. Exercising daily
B. Antibodies are specific to one antigen. C. Eating lots of pizza
D. Sleeping 2 hours per day
C. Antigens are produced in response to
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antigen. 308. Where do T cells mature?
D. Immunity develops when an antigen A. lymph node
destroys an antibody. B. bone marrow
303. Which of the following is NOT part of the C. thymus
first line of defense? D. liver
A. skin
309. What is the immune system’s purpose?
B. B cells
A. to circulate blood
C. sweat B. to digest food
D. lysozyme C. to protect the body from disease
304. All of the following prevent pathogens D. none of above
from entering the body except
310. These immune system cells stimulate ac-
A. red blood cells tions of other cells. What are they?
B. tears A. Cytotoxic T cells
C. mucus B. Memory B cells
D. skin C. Helper T cells
305. Which antibody is produced during the D. B plasma cells
primary immune response? 311. What is the body’s first line of defense
A. IgA against disease?
B. IgG A. skin
C. IgM B. blood
D. IgE C. antibodies
D. enzymes
306. What is the function of the immune sys-
tem? 312. As part of the immune system, white
A. To break down food blood cells fight germs. Another name for
white blood cells is
B. To distribute energy throughout the
body A. Rhinovirus
C. To be an instrument of communication B. Glands
between different parts of the body C. Leukocytes
D. To fight off diseases D. Nodes
313. What is a preparation of dead or weak- 318. A molecule that induces an immune re-
ened pathogens that is introduced into the sponse?
body to cause an immune response?
324. A substance made of weakened, killed, 329. B cells are made in the
or partial pathogens are designed to pro- A. thymus
tect the body from future invasions of that
pathogen. B. intestine
B. Virus D. spleen
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Immune System?
D. Microbe
A. Humoral and Cell Mediated
325. What is one of the ways that antibiotics
B. Humoral and Innate
work?
C. Inflammatory and Cell Mediated
A. They can stop bacteria from reproduc-
ing D. Cell Mediated and Macrophages
B. They can stop viruses from reproduc- 331. Enzyme in saliva and tears that kills cer-
ing tain kinds of bacteria.
C. They stop toxins from poisoning the tis- A. histamine
sues of hosts B. lysozyme
D. They engulf the pathogens C. cytokines
326. Antibiotics do not work on D. basophil
A. bacteria 332. What is the immune system’s main pur-
B. viruses pose?
C. fungi A. The immune system trap germs in an
organ so they do not spread.
D. children
B. The immune system produces illness
327. Cells of the immune system are able to and bacteria.
respond to the presence of invading organ- C. Helps your body fight off illness and
isms because they recognize the disease.
A. antigens present on the invaders D. Let’s germs into the body.
B. antibodies present in invading
pathogens 333. What percentage of people would die af-
ter variolation?
C. DNA pattern in the nuclei of viruses
A. 13%
D. antibiotics released from microbes
B. 30%
328. These cells remain in the blood stream af- C. 33%
ter an immune response.
D. 3%
A. Memory B and T Cells
334. occurs when a person’s own immune
B. Killer T Cells and B Cells
system procures antibodies in response to
C. Helper T and B Cells the pathogen.
D. Suppressor Cells and Macrophages A. Passive immuneity
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C. Phagocytes D. acts as a lubricant
9. Which of the following is present in tears 15. The largest lymphatic structure is?
and kill bacteria? A. Lymph
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C. Fungi
mune system?
D. All of them A. HAV
22. Which pathogen reproduces using binary B. HIVE
fission (Asexual Reproduction)? C. HIV
A. Virus D. HOV
B. Bacteria 28. Bacteria can harm your body and cause dis-
C. Fungi ease by
D. Parasite A. destroying cells and capturing toxins
B. damaging tissue and releasing toxins
23. Kills pathogens and speeds up the produc-
tion of protective proteins in the immune C. damaging organs and ingesting cells
system. D. causing fungus and viruses to grow
A. Macrophages 29. In which condition does the body turn
B. Inflammation against itself and mistakenly attack nor-
mal cells?
C. Fever
A. autoimmune disease
D. Stomach acid
B. allergy
24. When a tissue from a man is grafted onto a C. Hodgkin’s disease
woman it may be rejected by the woman’s D. cardiovascular disease
body. What is the main cause of this rejec-
tion? 30. What type of cell produces antibodies?
A. antibody production A. macrophage
B. phagocytosis B. cytotoxic T cell
C. the action of antibiotics C. plasma cell
D. Helper T cell
D. the presence of a Y chromosome
31. The skin, mucous membranes, natural se-
25. Athlete’s foot is an example of this cretions, and natural flora are all part of
pathogen the
A. Bacteria A. First line of defense
B. Virus B. Second line of defense
C. Fungus C. Third line of defense
D. Protozoan D. none of above
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C. Antigen
44. Outbreaks of disease, called epidemics,
can be prevented by vaccinating much of D. Antimicrobial
the population through a process known
50. Swelling of the tongue and throat, trou-
as
ble breathing, a drop in blood pres-
A. Passive immunity sure and stomach cramps/vomiting are
B. Active immunity signs/symptoms of what disorder?
C. Public immunity A. anaphylactic shock
D. Herd immunity B. tonsillitis
C. AIDS
45. T cells that kill infected cells are
D. myocardial infarction
A. cytotoxic T’s
B. helper T’s 51. Immune response is best described as
C. plasma cells A. formation of antibodies
D. antigen presenting c B. formation of an antigen-antibody com-
plex (Ag-Ab)
46. B-Lymphocytes are aka
C. formation of antigens
A. B cells
D. none of the above are correct
B. t-cells
C. MALT 52. The antibody found in saliva, tears and mu-
cus are
D. lymph nodes
A. IgA
47. What is the medical term for watery fluid
inside the lympathic vessels? B. IgG
A. Plasma C. IgD
B. Lymph D. IgM
C. Blood 53. What is the body’s most important nonspe-
D. none of above cific defense?
A. passive immunity provided by mom.
48. Vaccines are most often associated with
this pathogen. B. skin
A. Virus C. active immunity provided by vaccines.
B. Bacteria D. inflammatory response
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66. How does passive immunity differ from ac-
tive immunity? In passive immunity C. fungus
A. antibodies are produced by lympho- D. parasite
cytes
72. Which of the following is a result of
B. immunity depends on vaccination
acquired immunodeficiency, specifically,
C. immunity is specific to one type of anti- AIDS
gen
A. decreased b cell activity
D. no memory cells are produced
B. decreased t cell activity
67. T-lymphocytes provide immunity. C. increased helper t cell
A. cell-mediated or cellular D. blocks helper t cell activity
B. antibody
73. are made naturally by bacteria and
C. humoral fungi, as well as artificially by human be-
D. both antibody and humoral ings.
A. Vaccination
68. Specialized proteins that attach to specific
antigens B. Antibiotics
A. Innate Immunity C. Immunity
B. Antigen D. none of above
C. Antibodies 74. What is the body’s hypersensitive re-
D. Leukocytes sponse to an outside substance that is oth-
erwise harmless?
69. The secretion of antibodies by lymphocyte
A. autoimmune disease
B cells provides
B. allergy
A. cell-mediated immunity
C. Hodgkin’s disease
B. passive immunity
D. cardiovascular disease
C. humoral immunity
D. permanent immunity 75. Which pathogen is non-living?
76. Which of the following is not a kind of C. They produce and release antibodies
pathogen? to fight antigens.
A. Virus D. Leukosis
B. Bacteria 83. Complement and antibody are similar in
C. Fungi that both:
D. All of them A. are produced by mast cells
78. The type of immunity passed from mum to B. may make bacteria more attractive to
baby phagocytes
A. Artificially active C. have two identical antigen-binding
B. Artificially passive sites
79. The cell which is part of the cell-mediated 84. This cell engulfs and destroys pathogens.
response is A. helper T cell
A. B-plasma cells. B. macrophage
B. Cytotoxic T-cells. C. mast cell
C. macrophages. D. plasma cell
D. mast cells.
85. This is the word for a disease causing or-
80. The type of bacteria that is spiral shaped ganism.
is called:
A. Phagocyte
A. Coccus
B. Pathogen
B. Bacillus
C. Pandemic
C. Spirillium
D. Capsule D. none of above
81. B-lymphocytes are considered the stars of 86. Which type of cells make antibodies?
the immune system because: A. A cells
A. They recognize & bind to specific anti-
B. B cells
gen.
C. M cells
B. They produce antibodies that attach to
their cell membranes. D. T cells
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C. bone marrow
88. What type of immunity is responsible for
agglutination of viruses? D. tonsils
109. Which microorganism is nonliving? 114. What type of pathogen causes Ebola?
A. bacteria A. Bacteria
B. virus B. Fungi
C. fungus C. Virus
D. parasite D. Protist
110. Which best compares bacteria and 115. Newborns can acquire immunity
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viruses? through breast milk.
120. A protein that attacks antigens is called: 125. The lymph nodes are in your groin
A. Antibody A. axillary
121. A type of T cell that destroys infected 126. What attacks microbes indiscriminately?
cells is a: A. The adaptive immune system
A. cytotoxic (killer) T cell B. The innate immune system
B. helper T cell C. The lymphatic system
C. memory T cell D. The nervous system
D. suppressor T cell 127. Which of the following are known for in-
flicting direct damage
122. Cells that are descendants of activated T
A. Helper T cells
and B cells produced during an initial im-
mune response, which exist in the body for B. cytotoxic (killer) cells
years, enabling it to respond quickly to fu- C. suppressor cells
ture infections, are known as
D. memory T cells
A. memory cells
128. The most abundant antibody in serum is
B. killer B’s
A. IgA
C. suppressor T cells
B. IgM
D. killer T cells
C. IgG
123. While in the lymphatic vessels, tissue D. IgE
fluid pass through structures called
that filter the fluid 129. Babies acquire immunity to some dis-
eases before birth and are protected dur-
A. Lymphocytes ing the first six months after they are
B. Lymph nodes born.
C. Thymus glands A. pasive
D. Mucus traps B. passive
C. active
124. Put the steps of late phase B-cell activa-
tion in order.1. Binding antigen on BCR (B- D. actitive
cell receptor)2. Making antibodies3. Th 130. Which word best describes the relation-
cell binding4. Antigen presentation by B ship between the lymphatic system and
cell the circulatory system?
A. 1, 3, 2, 4 A. antagonistic
B. 2, 3, 1, 4 B. complementary
C. 1, 3, 4, 2 C. independent
D. 1, 4, 3, 2 D. redundant
131. What shape is a bacteria with coccus in 137. Vaccines stimulate your body to produce
the name?
A. Spiral A. viruses
B. Rods
B. antigens
C. Sphere
C. antibodies
D. None of the Above
D. pathogens
132. The second line of defense of the immune
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system is:
138. Which cell type is the smallest?
A. lymphatic response
A. bacteria
B. infection response
C. auto-immune response B. plant
B. antihistamine A. Lymphocytes
C. corticosteroids B. Nutrients
D. all of the above C. Pathogens
134. What is not a consequence of vaccina- D. Blood plasma
tion?
A. Antigens trigger an immune response 140. The “tags” or “flags” the B-cells use to
B. Antibodies lock onto antigens mark an invader are called
C. Memory cells are produced A. antibiotics
D. Phagocytes produce antibodies B. antibodies
135. You are sick with strep throat, which is a C. vaccines
bacterial infection. What type of medicine
will the doctor prescribe? D. infectious
A. a vaccine
141. Some staphylococcal infections re-
B. an antibiotic sult from direct contact with infected
C. an antibody wounds.Which of the following cells is a
D. an immune system first line of defence against staphylococcal
bacteria?
136. Cells that chew up invading organisms
A. B cells
A. Phagocytes
B. Skin cells
B. Leukocytes
C. Neutrophils C. Killer T cells
D. Antiobodies D. Helper T cells
142. Cell-mediated immunity is a type of ac- 147. A(n) is specially designed to safely
quired immunity. This is the immunity one hold municipal solid waste, construction
develops throughout life. Which of the fol- debris, and some types of agricultural and
B. Viruses adhered to the mucous lining 158. what does HIV do to our immune sys-
of a bronchiole. tem?
C. Bacteria within the host’s bladder. A. It makes our immune system more
D. Viruses within a lymph node stronger
B. It attacks red blood cells
153. B-lymphochytes
A. Actively destroy pathogens C. It attacks our brain to stop working
D. It attacks our Helper T cells and weak-
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B. Secrete antibodies
ens our immune system to the point
C. Act as markers for T-cells to identify
where our body cannot fight pathogens
foreign particles
D. Create new lymph 159. Which type of lymphocyte tells the killer
cells to stop the attack?
154. Which part of the blood is correctly paired
with its function? A. Suppressor T Cell
A. plasma-transports wastes and hor- B. Memory T Cell
mones C. Cytotoxic T Cell
B. red blood cells-fight infection
D. Helper T Cell
C. white blood cells-carry oxygen
D. platelets-produce antibodies 160. are proteins that destroy anti-
gens/pathogens.
155. why is stomach acid considered a barrier
A. antibodies
to foreign objects?
A. spleen B. cells
B. saliva C. viruses
C. skin D. vaccines
D. none of the above
161. is the process of reclaiming raw mate-
156. Pivotal, critical, “director”, “manager”, rials and reusing them to create new prod-
regulator, recruit, interact and attract ucts.
fighters. A. Reducing
A. cytotoxic T-cells B. Repurposing
B. memory cells
C. Recycling
C. suppressor cells
D. Composting
D. helper t-cells
162. Substance recognized by the body as
157. An organism that enters a life form and
“foreign” or non self.
causes disease or sickness is a
A. macrophage A. immunity
B. pathogen B. clone
C. vaccine C. antigen
D. phagocyte D. antibody
163. become immunocompetent in the thy- 169. What is a function of the second line of
mus and are NOT antibody producing. defence (innate immunity)?
164. This refers to the type of immunity devel- 170. Immune response starts with presen-
oped from exposure to a pathogen: tation of the antigen to the
A. specific (adaptive) immunity A. lymphocytes; b-cells
B. passive acquired immunity B. lymphycytes; helper t-cells
C. nonspecific (innate) immunity C. macrophages; helper t-cells
D. attenuated immunity D. macrophages; b-cells
165. all of the following have a mucous mem- 171. Disease causing organism.
brane except? A. Phagocytes
A. respiratory B. Pathogen
B. urinary C. Pandemic
C. digestive D. none of above
D. teeth
172. Injection of immune serum (antibodies
166. HIV is an example of what kind of trans- are injected)
mission? A. Natural-Active immunity
A. Bloodborne B. Natural-Passive immunity
B. Waterborne C. Artificial-Active immunity
C. Airborne D. Artificial-Passive immunity
D. none of above
173. The resistance to specific pathogens, or
167. Skin, membranes, white blood cells and disease-causing agents is called
more make up this system in the body. A. spleen
A. nervous system B. lymphatic system
B. digestive system C. anitbodies
C. immune system D. immunity
D. reproductive system
174. How many antigen-binding sites does im-
168. What are disease causing organisms? munoglobulin Gamma have?
A. antibodies A. 0
B. pathogens B. 1
C. phagocytes C. 2
D. vaccines D. 3
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get inside your body and D. macrophages
A. Cause harm
182. Macrophages and the inflammatory re-
B. Chill sponse is part of what line of defense?
C. Die A. first line
D. none of above B. second line
177. MRSA is a more serious form of Staphy- C. third line
lococcus aureus because it is to many D. fourth line
antibiotics.
183. Treatment for a systemic allergic reaction
A. receptive includes
B. resistant A. epinephrine
C. responsive B. antihistamine
D. reactive C. corticosteroids
178. The resistance to a disease acquired as D. all of the above
a result of exposure to the disease or
184. Inspect antigen, attacks & kills antigen,
agent:
if it is recognized
A. Active Immunity
A. Macrophage
B. Cell-Mediated Immunity
B. T Cells
C. Passive Immunity
C. B Cells
D. Natural Immunity
D. none of above
179. Which microorganism is single-celled and
185. Which of the following populations is
has no nucleus?
most likely to have strong herd immunity
A. Bacteria against a virus?
B. Virus A. A city where 70% of people are vacci-
C. Fungus nated
D. Parasite B. A city where 50% of people are vacci-
nated
180. Which type of T cell lyses cells that have C. A city where 10% of people are vacci-
been infected with viruses? nated
A. inducer T cells D. A city where 95% of people are vacci-
B. helper T cells nated
186. The antibodies that give immunity to a 191. In order to multiply, most bacteria need
disease can be acquired in the following A. warm and moist conditions
different ways:1-feeding on breast milk2-
189. What is the FIRST step of how a vaccine 194. Antibiotics destroy
works? A. Bacteria
A. Your body makes antibodies and de- B. Viruses
stroys the invaders C. Parasites
B. You get a shot with weakened invaders D. none of above
in it
195. Chemical defense molecules on tears
C. You don’t get sick the next time those
invaders enter your body A. Lysosome
D. The antibodies stay in your body to “re- B. Lysozyme
member” the invaders C. Enzyme
190. Antibodies via breast milk or placenta, D. Fatty acids
describes (the body is given antibodies 196. Which of the following pathogens are eu-
from mother) karyotic
A. Natural-Active immunity A. Bacteria
B. Natural-Passive immunity B. Virus
C. Artificial-Active immunity C. Protists
D. Artificial-Passive immunity D. none of above
197. Which of the following is the correct 203. Which of the following is NOT a nonspe-
equation for PHOTOSYNTHESIS? cific defense?
A. CO2 + light + H2O → O2 + Sugar A. mucus
B. CO2 + sugar + H2O → O2 + light B. sweat
C. O2 + light + H2O → CO2 + Sugar C. antibodies
D. CO2 + O2 + H2O → Light+ Sugar D. tears
198. What pathogen causes the common 204. Which immunity is present at birth and
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cold? passed from the mother to the baby
through milk and the placenta?
A. Virus
A. Artificial Active Immunity
B. Bacteria
B. Natural Active immunity
C. Fungi
C. Natural passive immunity
D. Protista
D. Artificial passive immunity
199. Which food does not have to be cold to
be safe? 205. All of the following are part of our anti-
gen specific defense mechanisms except:
A. ice cream
A. acute inflammation
B. eggs
B. lymphocytes.
C. meat
C. antibody production
D. apple
D. macrophages
200. Which of the following cells are primarily
206. Creates a slightly acidic environment that
targeted by HIV?
discourages pathogen growth.
A. Nerve cells
A. Stomach acid
B. Helper T cells B. Tears
C. Phagocytes C. Mucus
D. Cytotoxic T cells D. Skin oils
201. Cells modify their behavior based on 207. What is the scientific term for spreading
what they encounter through thier a disease?
A. TLRs A. Passing
B. PGNs B. Catching
C. MAMPs C. Transmitting
D. PAMPs D. Giving
202. The process where leukocytes engulf and 208. What do lymphatic vessels have that
digest bacteria is called keep lymph flowing in only one direction?
A. leukocytosis A. one way valves
B. hydrostatic pressure B. peristalsis
C. pathogenolysis C. smooth muscle
D. phagocytosis D. pressure from contraction of the heart
220. Toward what area of the body does 225. What are examples of lymphocytes?
lymph flow? A. Lymph nodes
A. brain B. T and B cells
B. feet C. immunoglobins
C. stomach D. none of above
D. heart 226. Swine flu is a disease that can be passed
from one person to another. Because of
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221. What are the two types of immune sys-
this we say it is
tems?
A. infectious
A. Acquired & Adaptive
B. noninfectious
B. Innate & Acquired
C. immune
C. Innate & Autoimmune
D. harmless
D. Red & White Blood Cells
227. Phagocytes that primarily attack bacte-
222. Which of the following pathogens are ria
prokaryotic? A. Phagocytes
A. Bacteria B. Antigen
B. Virus C. Neutrophils
C. Protists D. Antibodies
D. Fungus 228. A living cell that a virus infects is called
a
223. What is the role of antibodies in the im-
A. mast
mune system?
B. host
A. To actively destroy pathogens
C. cast
B. To mark pathogens that need to be de-
stroyed by T-cells D. parasitic cell
C. To safeguard the body against being 229. Skin, mucus, hairs and sebaceous secre-
destroyed by its own immune system tions all contribute to the effectiveness of
which type of nonspecific defense?
D. To bind to B-cells, helping them in their
support of T-cells A. Interferons
B. Complement system
224. Foreign proteins that gain access to the
C. Physical barriers
body through cuts and scrapes, through
the digestive or circulatory systems, or D. Phagocytes
through the urinary and reproductive sys- 230. B Cells can create long term cells that will
tems are called remember antigens on foreign substances
A. mineralocorticoids A. Memory Cells
B. immunoglobulins B. Plasma Cells
C. antigens C. T cells
D. antibodies D. Helper T cells
231. On the 1st exposure of humoral immunity 236. I am the ‘liquid’ portion of blood.
the antibodies peak in days. A. Erythrocytes
C. We can’t dig a deep enough pit for all B. White blood cells
the trash. C. Blood plasma
D. It smells bad. Like really bad. D. Red blood cells
241. Which of the following types of
235. Which cells decrease or stop the attack
pathogens are cytotoxic T cells best at
when the battle is won
destroying?
A. cytotoxic T-cells
A. bacteria
B. memory cells B. fungi
C. suppressor cells C. helminths
D. helper t-cells D. viruses
242. The immune response is terminated or de- 247. What are 2 components of adaptive im-
creased by munity?
A. suppressor B cells A. Dendritic and Lymphatic
B. suppressor T cells B. Natural and Monoclonal
C. both of the above C. Humeral and Cell-Mediated
D. none of the above; the immune re-
D. none of above
sponse can only be stimulated, not termi-
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nated 248. A part of the innate immunity. The bod-
243. Which progenitor line gives rise to B ies defensive response caused by micro-
cells? bial infection, physical damage or chemical
agents.
A. Common Myeloid
A. phagocytosis
B. Common Leukocyte
B. edema
C. Common Erythrocyte
D. none of above C. cytotoxicity
D. Inflammation
244. vaccine of weakened pathogen (body rec-
ognizes antigen and makes antibodies) 249. a single-celled organism that lacks a nu-
A. Natural-Active immunity cleus is called
B. Natural-Passive immunity A. a bacteriophage
C. Artificial-Active immunity B. a virus
D. Artificial-Passive immunity C. a protist
245. Together with the lymphoid organs and D. bacteria
tissues, provide the structural basis of the
250. immunity is when the bodies makes
A. Circulatory system its own antibodies.
B. Immune system A. passive
C. Respiratory system B. active
D. Digestive system C. cell mediated
246. Lymphocytes that produce antibodies and D. false
provide humoral immunity, which is par-
251. What shape is a bacteria with bacillus in
ticularly effective against circulating bac-
the name?
terial and viral infections, are called
A. A lymphocytes A. Spiral
B. B lymphocytes B. Rods
C. D lymphocytes C. Sphere
D. T lymphocytes D. None of the Above
C. when natural killer (NK) cells come in C. two structurally similar antibodies dis-
contact with a tumor cell. solved in the blood plasma
D. that part of an antigen that actually
D. ) in the bone marrow during the self-
binds to an antigen receptor.
tolerance test.
6. B or T cells that show the potential to
2. Secondary immune responses upon a sec- mount a strong immune response against
ond exposure to a pathogen are due to the self antigens undergo apoptosis. This is
activation of called
A. memory cells. A. clonal deletion
B. macrophages. B. clonal selection
C. stem cells. C. secondary immune response
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B. enzymes in tears
from occurring after injury?
C. inflammatory response
A. Ice
D. production of antibodies
B. Heat
4. anaphylactic shock
C. Sleeping
A. a severe allergic reaction to an aller-
D. Increase lymphatic drainage
gen that can result in death
B. disease of the lymph nodes, especially 10. Special lymphatic vessels that absorb fats
enlargement of the lymph nodes and transport them from the digestive
tract to the blood are called
C. tumors of lymph tissue
A. peyer”s patch
D. none of above
B. vili
5. What are the facilitators of the innate im- C. trabeculae
mune response?
D. lacteals
A. Toll-like Receptors
B. Phagocytes 11. Which exchanges materials from blood to
body cells
C. Interferon
A. veins
D. Inflammation
B. arteries
6. Substance, recognized as harmful to the C. capillaries
host, that stimulates formation of antibod-
D. lymphatic vessels
ies in an immunocompetent individual
A. Antigen 12. The abbreviation for laboratory is
B. Antijen A. lab
C. Antigin B. labo
D. Antijin C. lbrtry
D. none of above
7. Which of the following jobs is a good anal-
ogy for the lymphatic system’s relation- 13. thymus
ship to tissue cells? A. an organ important in immunity
A. Manager B. an organ that stores and produces red
B. Driver blood cells and gets rid of bacteria
C. Reporter C. an organ that filters bacteria
D. Garbage collector D. none of above
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B. Red blood cell count
D. There are no valves in the lymphatic
C. Hemoglobin vessels
D. Complete blood count
32. The cell that actually destroys the invading
27. Which of the following blood tests checks antigens
for bacterial growth?
A. Cytotoxic T cell
A. Erythrocyte sedimentation rate
B. Helper T cell
B. Culture and sensitivity
C. Hematocrit C. Suppressor T cell
28. Prevent blood clot formation 33. This component of blood serves our bodies
A. Anticogulants defense against foreign pathogens.
B. Anticoagulants A. Erythrocytes
C. Anticagulants B. Plasma
D. Anticoagilants C. Leukocytes
C. many different viruses cause cold B. pumps blood throughout the body
symptoms C. is purple
D. cold vaccines trigger autoimmune re- D. is useless
sponses
35. takes up oxygen in the lungs and delivers
30. An immediate allergic reaction that leads
it to the cells elsewhere in the body
to severe respiratory distress or failure is
A. hypersensitivity A. hemoglobin
40. The body’s first line of defense against 46. Cellular immunity involves
pathogens is A. T-cell receptors
A. phagocytes B. antibodies
B. fever C. complement
C. inflammatory response D. none of above
D. skin and mucous membranes 47. -immune
A. immunity; safe
41. Which organ produces white blood cells to
help fight pathogens and destroys dam- B. lymph node
aged or old red blood cells C. spleen
A. Heart D. none of above
48. HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. Why is C. slower; faster
AIDS so deadly?
D. none of above
A. the virus attacks your brain
B. the virus attacks your kidneys 54. smallest but most common antibody
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49. What is the most numerous type of phago-
cyte? D. IgE
A. Monocyte
55. What would happen if your lymph nodes
B. Leukocyte stopped working?
C. Neutrophil
A. harmful particles would get into your
D. B Cell bloodstream
50. Cytokines B. lymph would stop flowing throughout
the body
A. stimulate WBC mitosis
C. vessels and capillaries of lymphatic
B. stimulate WBC apoptosis
system would shrink
C. increase capillary permeability
D. blood would turn yellow
D. increase blood flow
56. RBCs live for about?
51. HIV enters cells.
A. CD4+ A. 120 days
52. Why does immunity from certain viruses 57. the cell fragments that play an important
not last a lifetime? part in forming blood clots
A. Only allergens create lifetime immu- A. platelets
nity.
B. fibrin
B. Viruses change quickly and frequently.
C. lymph
C. Viruses do not create immune re- D. hemoglobin
sponses.
58. The function of the atria is to
D. Allergens mutate frequently.
A. pump blood to the lungs
53. A primary immune response is ; and a
secondary immune response is B. pump blood to the body
A. very important; less important C. receive blood that comes to the heart
B. very rapid; very slow D. deliver oxygen to body tissues
59. Which chamber of the heart pumps oxygen 65. What part of the hemoglobin molecule is
poor blood to the lungs responsible for attracting Oxygen?
71. PURPOSE OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM 77. (CELL)/ CELL MEDIATED IMMUNITY
A. FIGHT FOREIGN PROTEINS A. CELLULAR IMMUNITY
B. CARRY FLUID B. HUMORAL IMMUNITY
C. FILTER BLOOD C. ACTIVE IMMUNITY
D. STIMULATE D. VACCINE
72. The mixture of plasma and blood cells is 78. Plasma appears?
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called: A. thick, very red
A. Packed blood B. thin, almost colorless fluid
B. Serum C. like water
C. Transfusion D. thin blue color
D. Whole blood
79. Endothelial cells of lymphatic capillaries
73. inflammation of lymph glands, nodes, or A. form tight junctions
both
B. overlap creating micro-valves
A. definition of lymphoma
C. are fenestrated to promot fluid move-
B. definition of lymphedema ment
C. definition of lymphadenitis D. none of above
D. none of above
80. Which of the following cells are red blood
74. NON SPECIFIC RESPONSE TO DAMAGED cells?
BODY TISSUE A. erthryocytes
A. IMMUNITY B. thrombocytes
B. ANTIBODY C. plasma
C. MEMORY CELL D. leukocytes
D. INNATE
81. Cell that slows down the activities of the
75. HIV and AIDS T & B cells after an infection / invasion is
A. caused by a virus that hinders the under control.
body’s ability to fight off infection A. Memory Cells
B. inflammation of the lymph vessels B. Suppressor T Cells
C. resembling or pertaining to lymph tis- C. Plasma Cells
sue D. Helper T Cells
D. none of above
82. Something that works to prevent is called
76. Any disease of the lymph glands
A. lymphangiopathy A. prophylactic
B. lymphangiography B. placebo
C. lymphadenopathy C. medication
D. lymphadenography D. corticosteroids
83. antibiotic treatment for bacterial infection B. Vaccines have dramatically reduced
A. treatment of lymphoma the number of people who catch them
D. replaces dead blood cells 92. Which of the following determines skin
tone?
87. Mary received her immunization for
measles, mumps, and rubella. What type A. Epidermis
of immunity to these disease will she re- B. Keratin
ceive?
C. Merkle cells
A. Natural immunity
D. Melanin
B. Passive acquired immunity
C. Natural active immunity 93. As RBCs mature they lose their?
D. Artificial active immunity A. color
B. nuclei
88. What do smallpox and polio have in com-
mon? C. shape
A. They are caused by bacteria D. size
94. What might you find inside a vaccine? 100. Component of blood that is part of our
A. weakened pathogens immune system and destroys pathogens in
our body
B. brand new antibodies
C. strong leukocytes A. red blood cells
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D. plasma
located on either side of the back of the
throat.
101. What is the MOST abundant component
A. adenoids of blood?
B. thymus A. Erythrocytes
C. Lymph nodes
B. Plasma
D. tonsils
C. Leukocytes
96. Which tonsils are at the back of the
tongue? D. Thrombocytes
A. lingual
102. Improperly shaped red blood cell condi-
B. palatine tion that can endanger the person that has
C. pharyngeal them is
D. none of above A. thalasemia
97. Red blood cells appear red because: B. sickle cell anemia
A. The size of their nucleus
C. sepsis
B. They contain hemoglobin
D. leukemia
C. They contain bilirubin
D. They transport oxygen 103. Contain granules that stain a pale lilac
color
98. MHC-II is found on
A. Cytotoxic T Cells A. Nutrophils
B. APCs B. Nutrofils
C. NK cells C. Neutrophils
D. Helper T Cells
D. Neutrofils
99. Skin, mucus, hairs and sebaceous secre-
tions all contribute to the effectiveness of 104. B cells are also known as
which type of defense?
A. B lymphocytes
A. Interferons
B. Bad cells
B. Complement system
C. Nonspecific C. Better cells
D. Phagocytes D. Ben cells
D. antigens A. Carbohydrates
A. thymus C. cell
B. spleen D. liver
116. Within this body part, lymph acquires 121. Which structure prevents backflow in the
particles that help the system func- lymphatic vessels?
tion. A. capillary
A. Skeletal B. vein
B. Digestive C. valve
C. Immune D. node
D. Respiratory 122. What type of immunity exists before a
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117. Place the following structures in the or- person is exposed to a pathogen?
der that lymph travels through them:A) A. Adaptive
lymph vessels; B) lymph nodes; C) lymph B. Innate
capillaries
C. Origin
A. C, B, A
D. General Immunity
B. A, B, C
123. Which job is a good analogy for the
C. B, A, C lymphatic system’s relationship to tissue
D. C, A, B cells?
A. manager
118. Lymph tissue found in the walls of the
small intestine; helps destroy bacteria & B. driver
keep it out of the wall of the intestine C. reporter
A. lymph node D. garbage collector
B. peyer’s patches 124. The abbreviation for injection is
C. thymus gland A. in
D. spleen B. inject
119. What causes lymph to move through lym- C. inj
phatic vessels? D. none of above
A. the heart pumps it 125. Cytotoxic T-cells go through in the
B. lymph nodes pump it thymus.
C. valves inside the lymphatic vessels A. negative selection
pump it B. positive selection
D. squeezing of lymphatic vessels during C. positive & negative selection
breathing or muscle movements D. none of above
120. What type of blood is the universal 126. Which is the best analogy for the function
donor? of vessels of the lymphatic system?
A. AB+ A. a pump
B. AB- B. a highway
C. O+ C. a factory
D. O- D. a warehouse
138. The state when the immune response is 144. pentameter; very efficient in combining
too intense or hypersensitive to an envi- with fungi
ronmental substance is called A. IgG
A. anaphylaxis B. IgM
B. allergen C. IgA
C. allergy
D. IgE
D. antigen
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145. The major cellular components in lymph
139. Vaccines provide us with: are:
A. Naturally acquired active immunity A. white blood cells
B. Naturally acquired passive immunity B. red blood cells
C. Artificially acquired active immunity C. platelets
D. Artificially acquired natural active im- D. protein molecules
munity
146. DISEASE CAUSING MICROORGANISMS
140. These cells produce antibodies:
A. ANTIBODY
A. Helper T Cells
B. PATHOGEN
B. Plasma B Cells
C. FEVER
C. Cytotoxic Cells
D. B LYMPHOCYTES
D. Macrophages
147. A pathogen is
141. -edema
A. a sick cell
A. swelling; accumulation of fluid in body
tissues B. an organism that can cause disease
B. spark C. only bacteria cells
C. spleen D. A cell that fights disease
D. none of above 148. abnormal collection of lymph fluid in ex-
142. Antibody concentration is increased in al- tremities, swelling can also extend to the
lergic individuals fingers and toes
A. IgG A. definition of lymphoma
B. IgM B. definition of lymphedema
C. IgA C. definition of lymphadenitis
D. IgE D. none of above
143. Vaccine injections are considered what 149. The antibody class that dominates a pri-
type of adaptive immunity? mary response.
A. Artificial Active Immunity A. IgA
B. Artificial Passive Immunity B. IgE
C. Natural Active Immunity C. IgG
D. Natural Passive Immunity D. IgM
161. Which disease is caused by the mutation 167. The antibody class involved in allergies.
& overproduction of your own cells when A. IgA
cell division gets out of control?
B. IgE
A. cancer
C. IgG
B. lymphodema
D. IgM
C. auto-immune disease
168. Helper T cells activate responses of
D. AIDS
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A. B cells and Cytotoxic T cells
162. An allergen B. Macrophages and neutrophils
A. is used to recognize cells as friend or C. Basophils and eosinophils
foe
D. APCs and dendritic cells
B. inappropriately activates the immune
system to respond to normal substances 169. A severe allergic reaction may cause
C. causes cancer swelling of the throat, breakouts of hives,
and even unconsciousness or death. What
D. block lymphatic vessels is this called?
163. Which system fights disease? A. asphyxiation
A. excretory B. anesthesia
B. nervous C. anemia
C. immune D. anaphylaxis (anaphylactic shock)
D. digestive 170. What is an important function of the
spleen?
164. Which organ receives immature white
blood cells, then raises them to maturity- A. Storage of blood
and then releases them? B. Resist foreign organisms
A. thymus C. Drainage system to transfer needed
B. heart protein
C. lungs D. none of above
D. brain 171. When you get an infection, your lymph
nodes may
165. What causes blood pressure?
A. Disappear
A. ventricles contract
B. Get smaller
B. rate of blood flow
C. Multiply
C. speed of return of oxygen to lungs
D. Become swollen
D. capillariy strenght
172. Which cells bind to pathogens and inject
166. SPECIFIC RESISTANCE TO DISEASE destructive enzymes?
A. SKIN BARRIER A. phagocytes
B. INFLAMMATORY B. killer T-cells
C. INNATE C. helper T-cells
D. IMMUNITY D. plasma B-cells
174. The environmental substance that causes B. Carbon dioxide is removed from the
a reaction is a/an lymph and passed to the lungs for exha-
lation
A. allergy
C. Lymph is oxgenated and pumped
B. pathogen through the body
C. allergen D. Lymph is cleaned of foreign antigens
D. antigen and debris
184. responsible for cell-mediated immunity 190. Abnormal decrease in platelets caused by
A. pathogen low production of platelets in the bone
marrow
B. antigens
A. Thrombocytopinia
C. antibodies
B. Thrombocytopinea
D. T cells
C. Thrombosytopenia
185. You have a cold, but your doctor will not D. Thrombocytopenia
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give you an antibiotic, because:
191. The lymph nodes are in your neck
A. antibiotics do not kill viruses
A. axillary
B. colds are not infectious
B. cervical
C. antibiotics make colds worse
C. thoracic
D. antibiotics provide bacteria with food
D. inguinal
186. Needed substances are carried to the
body cells by 192. Bleeders disease
A. enzymes A. Hemofilia
B. blood B. Hemophila
C. Hemophilia
C. water
D. Hemophelia
D. food
193. swelling, pain, tenderness in the lymph
187. People with type O blood can receive
gland, node, or both
A. type O only
A. signs and symptoms of lymphoma
B. type A, B, AB or O B. signs and symptoms of lymphedema
C. type A or B C. signs and symptoms of lymphadenitis
D. type AB D. none of above
188. Two main organs of the lymphatic sys- 194. Which of the following are embedded in
tem: the wall of the small intestines?
A. Thymus & Pancreas A. thymus
B. Pancreas & Thyroid B. spleen
C. Spleen & Thymus C. tonsils
D. Tonsils & Thyroid D. Peyer’s patches
189. An immune response that involves 195. RBCs develop a specialized iron contain-
macrophages and natural killer cells: ing compound that is?
A. Acquired Passive Immunity A. their color
B. Innate Immunity B. bile
C. Acquired Active Immunity C. hemoglobin
D. Adaptive Immunity D. oxygen
196. These cells help you respond quickly to 201. allergic reaction
pathogens when you encounter them for a A. when the body is exposed to a foreign
second time:
207. Lymph nodes swell up when C. Capillary walls must be very thin
A. they are pumping the lymph D. warehouse
B. they are full of bacteria 213. Lymph is
C. they are fully dehydrated A. in blood vessels
D. none of above B. in lymphatic vessels
208. NK cells and Cytotoxic T cells use to C. inside body cells
kill target cells.
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D. between body cells
A. MHC II
214. If you did not have platelets, what would
B. CD4 not happen
C. Perforin and Granzyme A. carrying oxygen
D. Membrane Attack Complex B. carrying glucose
209. Specialized proteins that function as an- C. blood clotting
tibiodies & fight various foreign bodies D. blood transfusion
that enter the body
A. Immunoglobulins 215. the fluid inside the lymphatic system
C. B cells B. platelets
D. T Cells C. fibrin
D. plasma
210. Adaptive immunity exclusively requires
A. macrophages 216. IMMUNITY OBTAINED FROM VACCINE
C. red blood cell maturation 224. Which of the following cells are white
blood cells?
D. T-cell negative selection
230. What is the function of red blood cells? 236. What is our first line of defense for our
A. carry oxygen body
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gens (protein) from a patient’s tumor 237. What might happen if your immune sys-
cells? tem lacked memory cells?
A. Vaccines A. Your body wouldn’t be able to fight off
B. Immune Cells diseases
C. T cells B. Diseases would make you sicker than
D. B cells normal
C. You might get the same disease over
232. Cytokines include factors that and over
A. are chemotactic D. Your body couldn’t produce antibidies
B. stimulate RBC production
238. Removed firbinogen a clotting element
C. decrease B cell activity from plasma is called?
D. decrease leukopoiesis
A. b cells
233. Which system includes the lymph, lymph B. t cells
nodes, white blood cells, T and B cells?
C. blood types
A. Excretory
D. serum
B. Digestive
C. Immune 239. If your pulse rate increases, your heart is
beating
D. Nervous
A. slower
234. Exercise is important because it B. faster
A. increases blood pressure
C. at the same rate
B. strengthens heart muscle
D. with less pressure
C. slows heart beat
D. reduces blood sodium 240. tonsillectomy
A. excision (removal) of the tonsils
235. OVERREACTION TO AN ANTIGEN
B. inflammation of the lymph vessels
A. AGGUTINATION
C. an immune response to one own’s
B. ALLERGY body tissue; destruction of one’s own
C. LYMPHATIC SYSTEM cells by the immune system
D. RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS D. none of above
241. Which of the following is a function of the 247. located in the upper, anterior chest also
Lymphatic System? and endocrine gland
245. Structures found all over the body, 251. Transports lymph to all body parts and
that produce lymphocytes & help stop connects the lymphatic system to the car-
pathogens / foreign bodies diovascular system.
A. lymph vessles A. lymph fluid
B. lymph fluid B. lymph nodes
C. lymph nodes C. tonsils
D. lymph D. lymph vessels
253. What is a difference between lymph and 258. Which term means blood destruction?
blood? A. Hemolytic
A. Lymph has a pump and Blood has no B. Hematolytic
pump
C. Homolytic
B. Lymphs have all blood cells and Blood
has only white blood cells D. Both A and C
C. Lymph has interstitial fluid and blood 259. What structure in the lymphatic system
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has plasma provides mechanical filtration of lymph
fluid?
D. none of above
A. Lymph
254. Lymph is secreted into which vein(s)
B. Lymph nodes
A. R/L Femoral
C. Lymph valves
B. R/L Renal D. LYmph vessels
C. R/L Subclavian
260. Which would most likely prevent a cold
D. R/L vena cava virus from spreading in a classroom?
255. The antibody class that forms pen- A. Using a tissue when blowing your nose
tamers.
A. IgA B. Washing your hands regularly with
soap
B. IgE
C. Shaking hands with others often
C. IgG
D. Students wiping down desks with dry
D. IgM paper towels
256. What is the best way to keep your im- 261. type of immunity provided by vaccines
mune system healthy?
A. passive
A. eat only organic foods
B. active
B. maintain a healthy diet and get plenty
of rest C. clonal selection
D. artificially
C. keep physical contact with other peo-
ple to a minimum 262. Which of the following is involved with
D. wear a surgical mask over your nose the development of T lymphocytes in the
and mouth fetus and infants?
A. adenoids
257. Vaccines stimulate immune responses.
What’s the best synonym for “stimu- B. spleen
late?” C. tonsils
A. Intensify D. thymus
B. Imitate
263. The main structures of the Lymphatic Sys-
C. Prevent tem are
D. Provoke A. Lymph vessels and blood vessels
B. Lymph glands and lymph cells 269. Closely parallel veins located in almost
C. Lymph nodes and lymph glands all tissues and organs that have blood ves-
sels
D. leukemia A. T-cells
B. B-cells
267. How does the HIV virus attack?
C. natural killer cells
A. it kills the antibodies in your body
D. phagocytes
B. it prevents you from making new anti-
bodies 273. Which happens first in T-cell matura-
C. it prevents your body from remember- tion?
ing the diseases you have already had A. Genetic rearrangement of T-Cell recep-
D. it attacks WBCs so your body can’t tor gene.
fight infection B. Positive selection.
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281. Yellowish liquid part of blood
cells, labeling them for destruction
A. plasma
C. accumulation of fluid in body tissues
due to obstruction of lymphatic structures B. platelets
B. Hemoglobin A. thymus
C. Platelets B. spleen
C. tonsils
D. none of the above
D. lymph nodes
277. These are produced by plasma B cells
and designed to mark antigens to be de- 283. PLACE OF RETURN WHERE LYMPH VES-
stroyed SELS CONNECT TO BLOOD VESSELS. ALSO
HOME TO LEUKOCYTES.
A. antigens
A. LYMPH NODE
B. active immunity
B. SPLEEN
C. antibodies
C. HISTAMINE
D. antibiotics
D. PHAGOCYTE
278. Humoral immunity involves
284. Disease caused by a immunodeficiency
A. T-cell receptors
virus that attacks T cell lymphocytes mak-
B. antibodies ing the immune system deficient
C. complement A. AIDS
D. TYCOON B. Lupus
C. outermost layer and covers external 291. type of immunity provided to a baby by
part of the body maternal antibodies
A. passive
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A. Produces immunoglobins
D. before
B. Resistance present at birth
C. Involves B-cells and T-cells 304. What measures blood pressure
308. Which of the following terms means to B. reticular fibers act as a net to catch de-
convert a liquid to a gel or solid? bris
319. The antibody class that dominates a sec- 325. All of the following are functions of
ondary response. lymph nodes EXCEPT
A. IgA A. produce red blood cells
B. IgE B. produce lymphocytes
C. IgG C. protect the body by developing immu-
D. IgM nity
320. How can inflammation be a good thing? D. filter lymph
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A. it hurts 326. Which prevents blood from flowing back-
B. it prevents the spread of infection ward
C. it looks pretty A. aorta
D. it is pain freee B. valve
321. CLUMPING TOGETHER OF CELLS/ C. septum
PATHOGENS ETC D. cornary artery
A. AGGULATION
B. ALLERGY/ HYPERSENSITIVITIES 327. The mucus in your nose and the acid in
your stomach are both front-line defenses
C. ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK against pathogens. Which is another front-
D. RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS line defense?
322. What type of cells perform antibody- A. antibodies
mediated immunity? B. leukocytes
A. B Cells C. T-cells
B. T Cells D. skin
C. Phagocytes
D. Protozoa 328. The lymph organ that programs T cells
and functions primarily during childhood
323. These are all examples of mechanical and adolescence is the
mechanisms that prevent entry of microor- A. spleen
ganisms into the body except:
B. thymus
A. tears to wash out eyes
B. skin C. tonsils
330. what is the thymus role in the immune 335. Any disease of the lymph nodes
system? A. Lymphadeopathy
341. radiation and chemotherapy 347. Any form of treatment that alters, en-
A. treatment of lymphoma hances, stimulates, or restores the body’s
natural immune mechanisms
B. treatment of lymphedema
A. Immunotherapy
C. treatment of lymphadenitis
B. Imunotherapy
D. none of above
C. Immunotheripy
342. What is lymph? D. Imunotherape
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A. It is the same as blood
348. history and physical exam, CT and MRI
B. is the fluid in the cells scans for confirmation
C. drains into your muscles A. Diagnosis of lymphoma
D. is the fluid collected by the lymphatic B. diagnosis of lymphedema
vessels
C. diagnosis of lymphadenitis
343. The immune system is made up of vari- D. none of above
ous types of leukocytes. Leukocytes are
commonly called 349. The immune system
A. white blood cells A. Prevents germs from harming the
body
B. red blood cells
B. Brings oxygen to your cells
C. glial cells
C. Circulates your blood
D. platelets
D. Allows movement throughout the body
344. biopsy of lymph tissue with Reed Stern-
berg cells present 350. The immunity provided by the T lympho-
cytes, effective against fungi, parasites,
A. Diagnosis of lymphoma
intracellular viral infections, cancer cells,
B. diagnosis of lymphedema and foreign tissue implants, is known as
C. diagnosis of lymphadenitis
D. none of above A. humoral immunity
B. lymphatic immunity
345. SARS-CoV-2 enters cells via
C. cellular immunity
A. CD4
D. immunosuppresive immunity
B. CD8
C. ACE2 351. White blood cells are also called
D. IGD A. erythrocytes
B. electrocytes
346. Which organ detects pathogens as they
pass through the throat? C. leukocytes
A. tonsils D. thrombocytes
B. thymus 352. Which of the following is a pathogen?
C. spleen A. Foreign material
D. larynx B. Bacteria
A. a lymphocytes C. tonsils
B. b macrophages D. liver
C. C monocytes 10. What is the function of lymph nodes?
D. d both a and b A. carry excess lymph fluid away from tis-
sues
5. Which of the following organ first en-
counter the antigen B. drain lymph back into the circulatory
system
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A. a thymus
C. filter foreign particles from the lymph
B. b spleen
D. absorb fat from the gut
C. C lymph node
D. d none of the above 11. The lymph node has zones
A. a 2
6. Why would someone whose spleen has
been removed be more susceptible to dis- B. b 1
ease? C. C 3
A. The body would not have an organ to D. d 4
detect foreign substances
12. What is the function of Tonsils?
B. The body could not mature and develop
A. To prevent germs from getting in your
lymphocytes
mouth
C. The body could not carry lymph from
B. To prevent germs from getting in your
various lymphoid organs to the heart
body
D. none of above
C. To disinfect
7. The peripheral lymphoid organs are D. none of above
A. a tonsils 13. What is the first line of defense in the
B. b adenoids body?
C. C lymph node A. The skin
D. d all the above B. Phagocytes
C. T cells
8. What is the advantage of becoming the
lymph fluid before returning into the blood D. B cells
cirulatory system?
14. What is the main function of the lymphoid
A. Clean from foreign substances system?
B. Remove waste products A. To transport lymph from different
C. Supply oxygen to the system parts of the body to the heart
D. Produces new leucocytes B. To transport nutrients and gases
throughout the body
9. What is the name of the lymphatic tissue C. To carry information to all parts of the
found in the back of the throat? body
A. thymus D. To bring oxygen into the body and re-
B. spleen leases carbon dioxide
2. Which pair of tonsils is also known as ade- 6. The protein molecule in red blood cells
noids? that carries oxygen from the lungs to the
A. Lingual tonsil body’s tissues and returns carbon dioxide
from the tissues back to the lungs is
B. Palatine tonsil
A. Red blood cells
C. Pharyngeal tonsil
B. Platelets
D. Tonsil
C. Hemoglobin
3. The heart receives oxygen-rich blood from D. Homeostasis
the lungs via the
A. pulmonary vein 7. Which filters lymph, provides immune
surveillance, and produces lymphocytes?
B. pulmonary artery
A. Lymph Node
C. vena cava
B. Thymus
D. aorta
C. Spleen
4. Where does digestion begin? D. none of above
A. Mouth
8. Which of the following is the structural dif-
B. Stomach ference between lymph capillary and blood
C. Small intestine capillary?
D. Large intestine A. Lymph capillary has blind-ended
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C. tonsils ated in the lymphatic system?
D. spleen A. lymphocytes
B. basophils
10. Which cells form the lining of blood ves-
sels and create a barrier between circulat- C. neutrophils
ing blood and surrounding tissues? D. eosinophils
A. mast cells 16. Which of the following is NOT found in the
B. epithelial cells tissue fluid?
C. monocytes A. Leucocyte
D. endothelial cells B. Erythrocyte
C. Glucose
11. What blood type can accept all of the
following:O-, O+, B-, B+ D. Oxygen
20. Which tonsils are located at the base of 26. red blood cell
the tongue? A. plasma
B. take up oxygen and deliver to cells B. Carry gas, nutrients, and wastes
through the body
C. help form blood clots
C. Carry oxygen from the lungs to the
D. help carries nutrients heart
23. What happens to the thymus after pu- D. Fight off diseases
berty?
29. Dalton is going to the nurse practitioner
A. it gets bigger to receive his immunization for measles,
B. it becomes more active mumps and rubella. What type of immu-
nity to these diseases will he receive?
C. it begins to shrink
A. Artificial acquired immunity
D. it stops working
B. Natural acquired immunity
24. Which of the following is a synonym for C. Natural immunity
the circulatory system?
D. Passive acquired immunity
A. Respiratory System
30. the extracellular fluid that is collected by
B. Endocrine System
the lymphatic vessels and nodes
C. Integumentary System
A. lymph
D. Cardiovascular System
B. thymus
25. Cervical nodes are located ? C. spleen
A. Near the neck D. tonsils
B. In the throat area 31. What insect carries the worm larvae that
C. In the groin causes Filiariasis?
D. In the Arm pits A. Mosquitos
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C. 3
A. Delivering oxygen to your body’s or-
D. 4 gan’s
33. Which of the following are small open B. Fighting invading germs
ended vessels that act like drain pipes? C. Helping blood clot
A. Lymph D. Preventing your blood from coagulat-
ing
B. Lymphatic capillaries
C. Lymph vessels 39. The type of immunity a person is born
with
D. Lymph nodes
A. Passive acquired
34. White and red blood cells are produced in B. artificial
A. the heart C. natural
B. compact bone D. acquired
C. bone marrow
40. a lymph organ responsible about upgrad-
D. lymph nodes ing the WHITE BLOOD CELLS
C. Less permeable than blood capillaries 48. How does regular exercise affect the
blood?
A. thymus D. Skin
D. Peter’s patches
B. Hodgkin and Blue lymphoma
47. Which of these is NOT a function of lymph C. Non-Hodgkin and Hodgkin lymphoma
nodes?
D. Non-Hodgkin and Hodgkin lymphadeni-
A. filter lymph tis
B. produce red blood cells 53. Which is true about the thymus?
C. house lymphocytes and macrophages A. It makes B cells
D. produce lymphocytes B. It makes T cells
C. It stops working as you age 59. The lymphatic system is unlike the circula-
D. All of the above are correct tory system because it is a
A. closed system
54. Type A blood has
B. system that contains white blood cells
A. A antigen and B antibodies
B. Type B antigens and Type A antibodies C. simple system
D. one-way system
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C. No antigens and A and B antibodies
D. A and B antigens and no antibodies 60. The capillaries, vessels and ducts that re-
turn lymph from tissues to venous tis-
55. What is the protein containing fluid within sues.
the lymphatic vessels?
A. lymphangi/o
A. Platelets
B. lymph/o
B. blood
C. lymphaden/o
C. lymph
D. splen/o
D. Peyer’s Patch
61. Which of the following is a thin watery
56. Storage of blood platelets is done by the fluid, composed of intercellular fluid?
A. Lymph
A. Stomach
B. Lymph capillaries
B. Liver
C. Lymph vessels
C. Spleen
D. Lymph nodes
D. Lymph Nodes
62. The nurse practitioner gives out immuniza-
57. What is chime?
tion shots for measles, mumps and rubella.
A. An animal that can be found in a sci- What type of immunity to these diseases
ence museum. would someone get?
B. What food is called after it has been A. Artificial acquired immunity
digested by the stomach.
B. Natural acquired immunity
C. A chemically active part of the small in-
testines. C. Natural immunity
D. The passage that leads from the small D. Passive acquired immunity
intestine to the large intestine.
63. What part of the lymphatic system stores
58. Makes and releases antibodies platelets?
A. T-Cells A. thymus
B. B-Cells B. spleen
C. Both C. lymph nodes
D. none of above D. thymus gland
75. The tiny oval shape structures located 81. Which of these is a thin, watery fluid,
throughout the body are known as? which forms when plasma diffuses into tis-
A. Lymph nodes sue spaces?
B. Spleen A. cerebrospinal fluid
C. Lymph fluid B. lymph
D. Thymus glands C. lacteals
76. MALT is located in all of the following lo- D. intracellular fluid
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cations except
A. Peyers patches 82. These are a type of immune system cell
(white blood cell). They phagocytize
B. Axillary nodes
(“eat”) foreign substances and activate T
C. Tonsils cells.
D. Appendix A. Lymphocytes
77. The thymus is a lymphoid organ that di- B. Macrophages
rectly fights antigens.
C. Reticular cells
A. True
D. None of these
B. False
C. Neither above 83. The lymphatic structures that are closely
D. none of above parallel to the veins are called:
80. What is in charge of “inviting” infections 85. What is the force exerted by blood on the
to create a wide variety of immune cells inside walls of arteries?
with “memory”?
A. Gravity
A. tonsils
B. thymus B. Heart rate
C. spleen C. Exercise
D. thymus gland D. Blood pressure
86. What is the name of the fluid inside the 92. When someone takes the blood of another
lymphatic vessels? person, it is called
87. Stimulates T-Cells and B-Cells 93. White blood cells help the body by
A. T-Cells A. supplying oxygen to cells
B. B-Cells B. fighting infections
C. Both C. removing carbon dioxide from cells
D. none of above D. providing nutrients to cells
88. What is in charge of removing debris, for- 94. Type B blood has
eign matter, bacteria, viruses, & toxins A. A antigen and B antibodies
from the body? B. Type B antigens and Type A antibodies
A. tonsils
B. spleen C. No antigens and A and B antibodies
C. thymus gland D. A and B antigens and no antibodies
D. lymphoid cells 95. The two upper chambers of the heart are
called:
89. Where do lymph vessels enter the circula-
tory system? A. ventricles
A. Under the arms B. atrium
B. under the heart C. valves
C. under the collarbone D. none of above
D. in the groin 96. The heart, blood vessels, and blood are in
which system:
90. A disease that suppresses the body’s im-
mune system is called A. Circulatory
B. Endocrine
A. AIDS
C. Integumentary
B. HIV
D. Sensory
C. ARC
D. CBC 97. A general term for irregular heartbeats
caused by malfunctions of the electrical
91. Blood type A-can receive blood types pacemaking is called an
A. O-, A- A. infarction
B. O+, A+ B. arrhythmia
C. O+, A- C. bradycardia
D. O-, A+ D. vasodilation
98. a dome shaped sheet of muscle, the , 104. Which of the following carry lymph from
separates the chest from the abdomen tissues?
A. diaphragm A. Lymph
B. epiglottis B. Lymphocytes
C. alveoli
C. Lymph vessels
D. bronchial tubes
D. Lymph nodes
99. Which lymphatic structure drains lymph
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from the right side of the head and right 105. Lymph travels in one direction from the
upper limbs? lymphatic capillaries to the subclavian
A. Coronary veins vein.
B. Lumbar Trunk A. True
C. Thoracic Duct B. False
D. Right lymphatic duct C. I don’t remember
100. What are the upper chambers of the D. none of above
heart?
A. bicuspid and tricuspid 106. Neutralizes antigens of pathogens
B. left atrium and right atrium A. T-Cells
C. left ventricle and right ventricle B. B-Cells
D. bicuspid and mitral C. Both
101. What does blood bring to cells? D. none of above
A. Oxygen and nutrients
107. oval mass of lymphatic tissue that re-
B. Waste products
moves pathogens and dead cells from the
C. Carbon dioxide lymph
D. Chlorophyll A. tonsils
102. Stimulates the other B. lymph node
A. Innate C. thymus
B. Adaptive
D. spleen
C. Both
D. none of above 108. After falling to the floor with breath-
ing problems and severe facial swelling
103. Which of the following serves as a stor- the emergency medical team treated Jason
age for purified lymph before it returns to with:
the bloodstream?
A. Antibiotics
A. Cisterna chyli
B. Tonsils B. Chemotherapy
114. What is one way the lymphatic system B. lymphoid tissues and organs
moves lymph throughout the body? C. lymph nodes
A. Gravity D. lymphatic glands
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pathogen and destroys it from within the
A. mammary
cell membrane
B. axillary
A. endocytosis
C. inguinal
B. exocytosis
D. peyer’s patch
C. phagocytosis
127. What part of the lymphatic system stores
D. pinocytosis blood platelets?
122. A lymphatic disorder that is thickening A. thymus
or stiffening of the skin, difficulty moving B. spleen
and difficulty breathing C. lymph nodes
A. Tonsillitis D. thymus gland
B. Lymphadenitis 128. Renee went to the Dr. after she noticed
C. Lupus erythematosus a rash every time she ate peanut butter.
She was diagnosed with:
D. Scleroderma
A. acquired immunity
123. Someone who is allergic to bees is stung, B. anaphylaxsis
and experiences facial swelling, headache
C. autoimmune response
and falling blood pressure. What type of
reaction is this? D. hypersensitivity
B. axillary D. Pancreas
C. inguinal 141. These are the lymphatic organs
D. thoracic A. thymus and spleen
136. Any disease-causing agent B. heart and kidneys
A. Carrier C. lungs and thymus
B. Vector D. spleen and pancreas
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143. Congestive heart failure is when C. Lymph nodes
A. the heart swells to be too large to D. Spleen
pump blood
B. the heart is beating irreguarily 149. The fluid from the blood capillary that is
formed in the spaces between the cells is
C. the heart loses blood pressure known
D. the lungs fill with liquid A. interstitial fluid
144. Type O blood has B. blood
A. A antigen and B antibodies C. lymph
B. Type B antigens and Type A antibodies
D. plasma
C. No antigens and A and B antibodies 150. What are the 2 semi-independent parts
D. A and B antigens and no antibodies of the lymphatic system?
A. lymphatic vessels & lymphoid tis-
145. How is the thymus effected by age?
sues/organs
A. The older you get the bigger it gets.
B. lymphatic organs & lymphatic tissues
B. The older you get the smaller it gets.
C. lymphatic tissues & lymphatic cells
C. It gets larger during your early years,
then starts getting smaller as you get D. lymphatic cells & lymphatic organs
older.
D. Age has no effects on age 151. Remembers previous invasions
A. Innate
146. What are surface chemicals on RBC’s
called? B. Adaptive
A. antibodies C. Both
B. antidotes D. none of above
C. antigens
152. What is your first line of defense?
D. antiblood
A. external body membranes
147. All of the following are an example of a
barrier defense except B. cellular & chemical defenses
A. Skin C. immune response
B. Saliva D. antibody replication
153. Blood type B+ can donate to 159. As he entered college, Joe developed en-
A. B+, AB+ larged lymph nodes that were NOT painful.
He was shocked that he was diagnosed
158. Which lymphatic organ is mass of lym- 163. What is the another name for high blood
phatic tissue located in the center of the pressure?
upper chest?
A. Atherosclerosis
A. Tonsil
B. Thymus B. Hypertension
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B. Head and neck region
165. What do we call the large lymphatic ves-
sels that drain lymph back into the circula- C. Your feet
tory system? D. Your brain
A. lymph capillaries
171. Lymph flows because it
B. lymph veins
A. quickly, has a strong pump
C. lymph nodes
B. slowly, has a weak pump
D. lymph ducts
C. slowly, does not have a pump
166. THE HEART, BLOOD VESSELS AND
D. quickly, has strong vessels
BLOOD MAKE UP WHAT SYSTEM?
A. URINARY 172. Chewing is an example of what kind of
digestion?
B. SKELETAL
A. Dental
C. CIRCULATORY
B. Chemical
D. MUSCULAR
C. Mechanical
167. Proteins that recognize specific harmful
agents and targets them for removal D. Saliva
175. The following are all autoimmune dis- 181. What are the main organs of gas ex-
eases except change in the respiratory system?
C. thoracic C. Plasma
D. cervical D. Humor
186. How does the lymphatic system aid the 191. What body parts can be affected by lym-
immune system? phedema?
A. by cleansing lymph A. Arms
B. by checking for invaders and foreign B. Legs
substances C. Both
C. by activating and producing lympho- D. None of these
cytes
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D. all of these 192. Which of the following are the blood ves-
sels that helps blood flow to the cells?
187. Removal of old or defective blood cells A. Veins
from the blood is done by the
B. Arteries
A. Stomach
C. Cappillaries
B. Liver
D. none of above
C. Spleen
193. What part of the lymphatic system re-
D. Lymph Nodes moves pathogens and dead cells from the
lymph?
188. Beth recently recovered from a viral ill-
ness, She will not have this illness again A. Bone marrow
because she has: B. Thymus
A. Natural acquired immunity C. Lymph nodes
B. WBC production D. White blood cells
C. Innate immunity
194. A type of white blood cell that is made in
D. none of above the thymus, the spleen, or the bone mar-
row.
189. Where are lymphatic vessels NOT lo-
cated? A. thymus
B. a shape problem with the Red Blood 202. Which is not an organ of the Lymphatic
Cell system?
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209. is an inflammation of the tonsils that C. blood vessels, tonsils, lymphatic tis-
occurs when the cells of tonsils become in- sue
fected. D. Thymus, spleen, blood vessels, lungs,
A. Tonsilittis tonsils, and lymphatic tissue
B. Flu 215. What do lymph nodes house?
C. Lymphoma A. Yellow Blood Cells
D. Lymphatic B. Red Blood Cells
210. Lymphatic Filariasis is caused by a C. Blue Blood Cells
A. Parasite Infection D. White Blood Cells
B. Bacteria 216. Which of the following blood groups is
C. Virus known as the universal acceptor?
D. Physical Injury A. A
B. B
211. Which of the following are small masses
of lymphatic tissue found through the ilium C. AB
region of the small intestine? D. O
A. Tonsils 217. After running, Johnny experienced irreg-
B. Thymus ularities in his heart rate. This was an in-
dication that the heart rate was altered.
C. Spleen
What is the medical term for this condi-
D. Peyer’s patch tion?
212. is part of the immune system, and A. arrythmia
it helps destroy microorganisms that enter B. arteriosclerosis
the body.
C. heart failure
A. Lymphatic System
D. murmur
B. Circulatory System
218. The body’s ability to resist bacterial inva-
C. Coronary System
sion and disease.
D. Digestive System A. Immunity
213. Bicuspid valve is also called B. Passive acquired immunity
A. tricuspid C. natural immunity
B. mitral D. artificial acquired immunity
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C. heat
231. The largest lymphatic structure is the
D. hindered mobility
A. thymus
B. lymph node 237. What is the name of the problem that
causes a fatty build up in the walls of
C. spleen blood vessels?
D. tonsils
A. Atherosclerosis
232. Which of the following is the function of B. Heart failure
the circulatory system?
C. Angina
A. To transport oxygen to the lungs
D. Stroke
B. To carry blood containing oxygen and
nutrients to the cells and eliminate waste 238. Which is nit a part of the digestive tract
from cells associated with the lymphatic tissue.
C. To pump the lungs A. Palatine tonsils
D. To give energy to the body B. Lingual tonsils
233. Atherosclerosis is caused by C. Peyer’s Patch
A. a buildup of fat in the arteries D. Stomach
B. a buildup of protein in the arteries 239. What is the aorta?
C. a buildup of calcium in the arteries A. the large vein leading back to the heart
D. a buildup of sodium in the arteries
234. THE TYPE OF BLOOD VESSELS THAT RE- B. the large artery leading away from the
TURNS BLOOD TO THE HEART heart
241. ANTIGENS on RBC for blood type B 246. Which of the following is NOT a disorder
of the Lymphatic System?
A. A
A. Atherosclerosis
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253. What takes in cell debris, pathogens, and C. Water (H2O)
cancer cells?
D. Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
A. spleen
B. thymus 259. Following a transient ischemic attack, di-
agnostic studies showed that the patient
C. lymphatic vessels had a bulging vessel in the brain that had
D. peyer’s patches leaked. The patients diagnosis was:
257. In which order does lymph flow through 262. What is known as the blood reservoir?
the lymphatic system? a. lymph nodes b.
A. Tonsils
lymph capillaries c. right lymphatic duct /
thoracic duct d. subclavian vein B. Spleen
A. a, b, c, d C. Blood cells
B. b, a, c, d D. Thymus
263. What is the circulation between your 269. Which of the following is NOT a disorder
heart and lungs called? of the Cardiovascular System?
265. Lymph consists of water, glucose, and 271. Lymphatic tissue found in the walls of the
small intestine that destroy bacteria and
A. Red blood cells prevent it from infecting and penetrating
the walls of the intestine are known as
B. White blood cells
A. Peyer’s patches
C. Plasma
B. chyme
D. Bacteria
C. chyle
266. What is the percentage of lymph that is D. interstitial fluid
formed in the lymph capillary?
A. 5% 272. Tissue Fluid that contains water and dis-
solved substances
B. 10%
A. Lymph Nodes
C. 25%
B. Lymph
D. 55%
C. Plasma
267. Sac-like mass, located in the LUQ D. Anemia
A. spleen
273. The is a small organ intimately asso-
B. panacreas ciated with the lymphatic vessels.
C. liver A. Lymph Nodes
D. gallbladder B. Spleen
268. Muscular organ of the cardiovascular sys- C. Peyer’s Patch
tem that pumps blood to the body through D. Brain
blood vessels.
A. Lungs 274. When the body’s immune system fails to
protect itself against foreign material, and
B. Aorta instead, the antibodies formed irritate cer-
C. Heart tain body cells.
D. Muscle A. Hypersensitivity
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blood cells). He diagnosed Joe with: A. + or-
A. HIV/AIDS B. the number of antigens
B. lupus erythematosus C. the number of antibodies
C. mononucleosis D. aggulation
D. scleroderma 281. the main gland of the lymphatic system,
276. Turns off the immune system which produces mature T lymphocytes that
are ready to fight infection
A. T-Cells
A. lymph node
B. B-Cells
B. thymus
C. Both
C. spleen
D. none of above
D. tonsils
277. How does our immune system gain ac-
282. Which is NOT part of the lymphatic sys-
quired immunity?
tem?
A. T-cells always attack viruses A. lymph nodes
B. Antibodies are made to recognize anti- B. thymus
gens on pathogens
C. spleen
C. Antigens are made to recognize anti-
bodies on pathogens D. alveoli
D. Our body remembers the pathogens 283. What part of the lymphatic system filters
foreign material from blood and destroys
278. *Type of cancer of the lymph old red blood cells?
nodes*Symptoms include swelling of the
A. spleen
lymph nodes*Most common in the axilla
of young adults (15-30) B. lymph nodes
A. Hodgkins C. thymus
B. Mononucleosis D. lymphatic vessels
C. Lymphadenitis 284. Interstitial fluid is collected by
D. Lymphedema A. Blood capillaries
279. Which activity is a function of the lym- B. Lymphatic capillaries
phatic system? C. Nerve cells
A. fight infections D. The thymus
285. Place the following in order:A) food en- 290. Of the two collecting ducts in your lym-
ters your large intestine; B) Food enters phatic system, which one drains more
your small intestine; C) Food enters your lymph?
D. penicillin A. Tonsils
B. Spleen
288. A person with type B blood can donate
C. Thymus
blood to people with which type(s) of
blood? D. Peyers patch
A. B, AB 294. a collection of organs whose primary
B. A, AB function is to collect extracellular fluid and
return it to the blood
C. AB only
A. lymphatic system
D. All types
B. lymph
289. Upper, anterior thorax, above the heart C. lymph node
also considered an endorcrine gland D. thymus
A. Lymph
295. Which of the following helps form
B. thymus gland scabs?
C. immunity A. Red Blood cells
D. passive acquired immunity B. White blood cells
296. Lymphatic vessels transport lymph to- 301. If you were looking for the Lymph capil-
wards the- laries, you’d most likely find them in the
A. Heart
B. Brain A. Digestive system
B. CNS
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C. Feet
D. Lungs C. Bones and teeth
D. bone marrow
297. What causes T cells to become immuno-
competent by secretion of thymosin & thy- 302. Can receive all of the following blood
mopoietin types:O-, O+, A-, A+
A. spleen A. O+
B. lymph nodes B. O-
C. lymphatic vessels C. A+
D. thymus D. A-
298. What are lymph vessels? 303. What are blood capillaries permeable
A. Act as “drains” to collect excess tissue to?
fluid and return it to the venous blood just A. Gases
before it returns to the heart.
B. Lymph
B. fluid that contains in the heart
C. Organs
C. fluid that contains in our abdomen
D. Cats
area
D. Blood vessels that collect excess fluid 304. Fight bacteria and viruses by entering in-
fected tissue, destroying bacteria/viruses
299. North Carolina has strict immunization re- and absorb dead blood cells
quirements for students to attend public
A. White Blood Cells
schools. What benefits do vaccinations
provide? B. Red Blood Cells
A. Artificial active immunity C. Platelets
B. Natural immunity D. Plasma
C. Lymphocyte production 305. if the extra fluid (not reabsorbed into the
D. Sterilization capillaries) is left in the tissues, it would
cause
300. Evelyn recently recovered from a viral ill-
ness. She will NOT have this illness again A. blisters
because she has: B. swelling
A. artificial active immunity C. bruises
B. innate immunity D. none of above
306. What do lymph capillaries absorb? 312. Which part of blood is mainly responsible
A. Blood for carrying oxygen to body cells?
C. Pancreas & Thyroid 323. How many lines of defense are there?
D. Tonsils & Tyroid A. 1
B. 2
318. Red blood cells are produced in the
C. 3
A. pancreas
D. 4
B. Heart
C. Muscles 324. The thymus is most active during
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A. fetal development
D. Bone marrow
B. childhood
319. How might the lymphatic system respond
C. middle age
to maintain homeostasis in the body?
D. old age
A. By running around with its head cut off
325. Which body system does your cardiovas-
B. By deactivating lymphocytes to not at- cular system work with to oxygenate the
tack foreign invaders blood?
A. Muscular
C. By ensuring fat levels are normal in the
body B. Skeletal
D. none of above C. Lymphatic
D. Respiratory
320. Carry blood away from heart; mostly
oxygen-rich 326. What is the main function of the thy-
A. Arteries mus?
A. To make food for the body
B. Veins
B. Filter blood cells
C. Capillaries
C. Fight bacteria
D. none of above
D. Produce T-cells
321. Which of the following words means sur-
gical removal of the appendix? 327. How does the lymphatic system aid the
cardiovascular system?
A. appedicitis
A. returning fluid to blood maintains
B. appendectomy blood pressure and volume
C. lobectomy B. checking for invaders helps prevent in-
D. hepatitis fections
C. producing lymphocytes helps maintain
322. These are a type of immune system cell the system
(white blood cell). They are the main
warriors of the immune system by doing D. none of these
things like attacking foreign substances. 328. Axillary nodes are located ?
A. Lymphocytes A. Near the neck
B. Macrophages B. In the throat area
C. Reticular cells C. In the groin
D. None of these D. In the Arm pits
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happens when brain cells are starved of C. Underneath the sternum between the
oxygen and die? lungs
A. Atherosclerosis D. none of above
B. Heart failure
347. Which are the blood vessels that carry
C. Heart attack blood to the heart?
D. Stroke
A. Veins
342. Which term means that which produces B. Arteries
fibers?
C. Capillaries
A. Fibrogenic
D. Lymph nodes
B. Fibrinogen
C. Fibrinolysis 348. I am the ‘liquid’ portion of the lymphatic
system. The fluid that removes cellular
D. Fibrotic waste products, pathogens and dead blood
343. Masses of lymphatic tissue that produce cells.
lymphocytes and filter bacteria, and found A. Erythrocytes
in the throat B. Thrombocytes
A. adenoids
C. Leukocytes
B. thymus
D. Lymph
C. Lymph nodes
349. The structural difference between lym-
D. tonsils
phatic capillary and blood capillary:
344. Recovery from a viral illness and not hav- A. Lymph capillary is close-ended
ing this illness again is because of
B. Lymph capillary is continous
A. artifical active immunity
C. Lymph capillary is thicker
B. Innate imunity
D. Lymph capillary is green in color
C. WBC production
D. Natural acquired immunity 350. What is Lymphoma?
A. A cancer in lymophocytes
345. What are lymphatic tissue in the nasal
cavity and at the back of the mouth? B. An increase in white blood cells
A. Tennis C. A donkey
B. Toes D. Inflammation of lymph nodes
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D. none of above
363. What type of immune cells attack and de-
stroy foreign cells? 369. What is your third line of defense?
A. B Cells A. external body membranes
B. T Cells B. cellular & chemical defenses
C. Antigens C. immune response-antigens
D. Helper B Cells D. antibody replication
364. a flap of tissue that closes when we eat 370. There are main functions of the lym-
so food doesn’t not go down the trachea phatic system.
A. larynx A. two
B. pharynx B. three
C. trachea C. four
D. epiglottis D. five
365. Which of the following is a synonym for 371. Causes clumping of antigens
the lymphatic system?
A. T-Cells
A. Endocrine System
B. B-Cells
B. Circulatory System
C. Both
C. Respiratory System
D. none of above
D. Immune System
372. What type of muscle do you find in the
366. Which body system does your respira- heart?
tory system work with to move the di-
A. smooth muscle
aphragm for breathing?
A. Muscular B. Skeletal muscle
385. Mass of lymphoid tissue on either side of 386. What is the name of the problem that
the throat at the back of the tongue causes the heart muscle cells to die?
A. Tonsil A. Atherosclerosis
B. Spleen B. Heart failure
C. Lymph Node C. Heart attack
D. Skin D. Stroke
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1.9 Macrophages
1. Which is the third step in phagocytosis? 6. Select all examples of physical barriers
A. Chemotaxis A. skin, mucus, tears
B. Engulfment B. skin, mucus, earwax
C. Phagosyme-lysosome fusion C. skin, tears, earwax
D. Destruction D. stomach acid, music, earwax
2. What is step four in phagocytosis? 7. What is the first step in phagocytosis?
A. Chemotaxis A. Engulfment
B. Engulfment B. Chemotaxis
C. Phagosyme-lysosome fusion C. Challenge of B-Lympohcytes
D. Destruction D. Antibody production
3. Which is step five in phagocytosis? 8. Which of the following is an inflammatory
A. Chemotaxis mediator?
B. Release A. Lysozyme
C. Phagosyme-lysosome fusion B. Saliva
D. Destruction C. Histamine
D. Immunoglobulin
4. What is an example of non-specific im-
mune system response 9. Which of the following is NOT an innate
A. skin immunity internal defense?
B. T lymphocytes A. Inflammatory response
C. Phagocytosis B. Antimicrobial proteins
D. Antibodies C. Mucus membranes
D. Phagocytic cells
5. ‘Engulfment’ during phagocytosis is
called? 10. What is the second step in phatocytosis?
A. Endocytosis A. Chemotasis
B. Exocytosis B. Engulfment
C. Phagocyte engulfment C. Phagosyme-lysome fusion
D. Phagocytosis absorption D. Destruction
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A. because its help us to move .
D. 12, 900, 000
B. because it activates antibody secre-
2. where did the B cell located? tion in B cell .
A. are located in all lymphatic tissues and C. because we could say helper .
can be thought of as antibody factories . D. all of the above .
D. Antibody A. antibodies
B. antibiotics
3. Immune system recognises which part of a
pathogen? C. antigens
A. active site D. none of above
B. antibiotc 7. Which of the following is an example of
C. antibody natural passive immunity?
D. antigen A. getting the flu virus
B. vaccination
4. Which one of the following MHCs involved
in CTLs in cancer immunology C. breast feeding
A. MHC I D. antibody serum injection
8. A lymphocyte that identifies pathogens They may mature in either bone marrow
and distinguishes one from another: or the thymus gland.
9. Which of the following is not a sign of in- 14. What is the function of B cell
flammation? A. Proliferate plasma cell and memory B
A. vasoconstriction cell
19. All of the followings are lymphoid organs 24. Match the vocabulary word with the
except for proper definition.The fluids that leaks out
of capillaries into spaces between cells.
A. Spleen
A. B cell
B. Thymus
B. T cell
C. Pancreas
C. Lymph
D. Bone marrow
D. Antibody
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20. Any organism that causes disease like a 25. A poison produced by bacteria that dam-
virus or bacteria is called: ages cells:
A. Antibiotics A. Antibiotic
B. Antibody B. Vaccine
C. Pathogen C. Antigen
D. Phagocyte D. Toxins
26. is the process in which cells engulf and
21. White blood cells that distinguishes be- break down pathogens and debris.
tween each kind of pathogen is called:
A. Phagosome
A. Lymphocyte
B. Complement fixation
B. Phagocyte C. Neutralization
C. Antibodies D. Phagocytosis
D. Antigen 27. Interleukin-1 is secreted by
22. Part of the body’s defense against A. Helper T cell
pathogens in which cells of the immune B. Killer cell
system react to each kind of pathogen
C. B cell
with a defense targeted specifically at that
pathogen is called: D. Antigen Presenting Cell
30. A molecule that the immune system recog- 31. Immunity that occurs when a person’s own
nizes either as part of the body or as com- immune system produces antibodies in re-
ing from outside the body: sponse to the presence of a pathogen like
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2.1 Antigens and immunogenicity
1. Very low doses of antigen may induce C. CLASS I ASSOCIATED INVARIANT
A. hypersensitivity CHAIN PEPTIDE
8. What does Ig stands for? 14. Heavy chain and light chain in an antibody
A. Immunoglobins joint by
A. IgG
B. Secreted toxins
B. IgM
C. A cell wall that surrounds the cell
C. IgA
D. Glycoproteins on the plasma mem-
D. IgE brane
12. B cells differentiate into memory and 18. A virus vaccine that can activate cytotoxic
cells. T cells must contain
A. Effector A. a high dose of virus particles
B. Affector B. an adjuvant to stimulate T cell division
C. Both
C. live virus
D. none of above
D. virus peptides
13. Types of immunoglobulins are 19. Antibody structure is commonly
A. IgA, IgM, IgG, IgE and IgD A. Z shaped
B. IgA and IgM only B. Y shaped
C. IgD and IgG only C. W shaped
D. IgA only D. T shaped
20. Immunoglobulin A present in 26. this function as the most potent immuno-
A. two types gen,
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A. monomer 27. Known as the “Antigenic Determinant”.
B. dimer
A. Haptens
C. trimer
B. Carrier
D. tetramer
C. Epitope
22. A and B antigen is an example of what D. Adjuvants
type of antigen?
A. Autoantigens 28. A molecule that can be covalently linked to
B. Alloantigens a non-immunogenic antigen to make it an
immunogen is called
C. Heteroantigens
A. adjuvant
D. Homoantigens
B. carrier
23. Which of these are cellular?
C. hapten
A. Viruses
D. mitogen
B. Viroids
C. Bacteria 29. Which of the following is incorrect with re-
D. Prions gard to antigen epitopes?
A. An epitope may be shared by two dif-
24. CD antigens ferent antigens
A. allow leukocytes to recognize antigen
B. protein molecule usually contains mul-
B. are each expressed on only one cell tiple epitopes
type
C. B cells bind only processed antigen epi-
C. are expressed on immune cells to topes
mark them for separation
D. Epitopes may be linear or assembled
D. function as receptors for cytokine and
CAMs 30. HLA-DR3 and HLA-DR4 is an example
of what MHC/ Major Histocompatibility
25. To be the best immunogen, it should weigh
Complex?
42. Which of the following DOES NOT play a 48. Cross presentation of exogenous antigens
role in antigen presentation is done by as it has great advantage
A. MHC Class I molecule for the host.
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43. Antibodies divided into
49. Which of these are non-cellular?
A. two class
A. Viroids
B. five class
B. Fungi
C. ten class
C. Bacteria
D. three class
D. Arthropods
44. Which of the following immunogens are
somewhat less potent? 50. A pathogen can be a (n)
B. Glycolipids B. virus
C. bacteria
C. Carbohydrates
D. All of these
D. Glycoproteins
51. what will happen with the antibodies after
45. it is the ability a substance to induce ei-
the antigens are gone?
ther humoral or cell-mediated immune re-
sponse A. they will disappear from the body
A. Immunogenicity B. they will stay in the body
B. Antigenicity C. they will destroy the body
C. Allerogenicity D. non-from above
D. Tolerogenicity 52. Which proteins are on the surface of cells
and present self and non-self antigens to
46. Antibodies are also called as T lymphocytes?
A. Immunoglobulins A. Antibodies
B. Immunglobins B. Enzymes
C. Immunogoblins C. Major Histocompatibility Complexes
D. none of above D. Immunogens
47. Which of these would not contain genetic 53. Immunoglobulin E (IgE) percentage in
material? serum is
A. Viruses A. 30 %
B. Fungi B. 20 %
C. Bacteria C. below 1%
D. Prions D. 90 %
2.2 T- lymphocytes
1. Define class I MHC B. LCM expresses some pathogen pep-
A. defines self on all nucleated cells, pre- tides
sentation of extracellular pathogens C. MHC expresses alot of pathogen pep-
tides
B. defines self on some nucleated cells,
presentation of extracellular pathogens D. MHC expresses all pathgoen peptides
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C. mostly restricted to pAPCs, presenta- 3. What do CD4+ helper cells do?
tion of extracellular pathogens
A. regulate both innate and adaptive im-
D. none of above munity
2. What are infected cells? B. regulate ONLY innate immunity
B. Type II C. IgA
C. Type III D. IgE
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C. MS
A. IgG
D. All of the above
B. IgM
C. IgA 14. IgG has
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A. make specific antibodies but cannot di- B. Protein
vide C. Polysacchiaride
B. can divide but cannot make antibodies D. Lipid
16. Why have monoclonal antibody cells been 21. Which of the following is not a use of mon-
rejected by human tissues? oclonal antibodies?
C. the human body creates its own anti- C. the identification of chromosome nor-
bodies in response to the antigens mality
D. used to prevent organ rejection
D. the human body rejects the mouse
cells 22. What is a hybridoma cell?
27. Why are mice injected with antigens? 30. How are monoclonal antibodies pro-
A. so they produce lymphocytes with the duced?
specific antibody. A. Taken from bone marrow
B. so they produce lymphocytes with the B. From a clone of a single cell
specific antigen.
C. From an embryo
C. so they produce tumour cells.
D. All of the above
D. so they produce clone cells.
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28. Natural humoral immune response against 31. What is the full form of HAT?
a pathogen leads to the production of A. hypoxanthine aminopterin thymidine
A. Monoclonal antibodies B. Hydroxy acetic tetrahydrate
B. Polyclonal antibodies
C. Hypoxy amiopterin thymidine
C. Macrophages
D. None of these
D. None of these
32. Infectious diseases are also called
29. Hybridoma technology was developed by
A. Khorana and Nirenberg A. Carriers
1. The initial complement component that 6. The major role of the complement system
is bound by complement-fixing antibodies is to work in conjunction with
is:
5. How do vaccines protect an individual from 10. Which of the complement receptor acti-
disease? vate phagocytosis by binding to C3b & C4b
coated particles?
A. They are antibodies
A. CR1
B. They trigger the creation of antibodies
B. CR2
C. They are white blood cells C. CR3
D. none of above D. CR4
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12. Abbreviation of ELISA is
lowing pathway is affected in this condi-
A. Ion Selective Field Effect Transistors tion?
B. Enzyme Linked Field Effect Transistors A. Alternative pathway
B. Classical pathway
C. Adenosine triphophosphate
C. Lectin binding pathway
D. Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay
D. None of the above
13. The CD4 is present as part of in T lym-
18. The classical and alternative pathways
phocytes
meet at complement component:
A. CD28 R
A. C3
B. TCR complex
B. C4
C. Microcomplex
C. C4b
D. ILR complex
D. C5
14. Several of the complement components
19. What is the main effector mechanism of
are:
complement?
A. Antibodies
A. Phagocytosis
B. Cytokines
B. inflammation
C. Enzymes
C. MAC
D. Glycolipids D. all of the above
15. Certain microorganisms such as 20. Which of the following component of com-
Salmonella, Listeria, Neisseria, Cryptococ- plement proteins enhances inflammation
cus consist of specific carbohydrate moi- (anaphylatoxin)?
eties on the surface antigen that activate
A. C3a
A. Alternative Pathway B. C5a
B. Classical Pathway C. Both of the above
C. Lectin Binding Pathway D. None of the above
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13. Which has the potential to supply the most
A. C6 electrons to cellular respiration?
B. C7 A. lipids
C. C8 B. proteins
D. C9 C. carbohydrates
18. Beta oxidation 24. Which of the following is the reason why
A. fatty acids → G3P C4 plants create malate as an intermediate
molecule.
C. C3 C. unaffected
D. C5 D. none of above
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A. Adhesion and increased activity of D. cofactor for factor I; mediates trans-
phagocytic cell port of immune complexes
B. B cell coreceptor for antigen with Cd19
33. Binds to Fc region of IgM and IgG
C. Cofactor for factor I cleavage of C3b A. C1q
and C4b B. C1r
D. Dissociates C2b or Bb from binding C. C1s
sites
D. C4
31. The enzyme that binds the CO2 with a 5C
compound in carbon fixation is: 34. Binds to C5b in MAC
A. NADH dehydrogenase A. C6
B. RuBisCO B. C7
C. ATP Synthase C. C8
D. none of above D. C9
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C. Cytotoxic not antibodies is called?
D. Macrophage A. immune system
10. Which Immunoglobin has the highest con- B. cell mediated response
centration in serum? C. surface proteins
A. Ig G D. lymphocyte
B. Ig M 16. Interferon is group of hormone like pep-
tides produced by cells in response to the
C. Ig A
presence of
D. Ig D A. chemical irritants
11. what cell helps activate the B cell; helps B B. viruses
cell decide whether it is a foreign antigen C. bacterial cells
or an antigen that belongs in the body
D. malarial parasites
A. Plasma cells
17. Name the cytokine:Co-stimulates TH cell
B. memory cells activation, Promotes T-cell proliferation
C. T Cells (stimulates IL-2 receptors); inflammation
D. Helper T Cells A. IL-1
B. IL-3
12. Cytolysis is facilitated by what in the com- C. IL-4
plement?
D. IL-6
A. MAC
18. . Identify the medication used to kill or
B. Ig G
slow the growth of bacteria
C. C3b A. Antibiotics
D. C4a B. Antibodies
13. A tissue cell that has high-affinity recep- C. Medicalsupplementation
tors for Ig E and generates inflammatory D. Herbalremedies
chemical mediators in allergy is know as?
19. B Cells are created where?
A. Mast Cell A. Thyroid
B. T-Cell B. Spleen
C. Plasma Cell C. Bone
D. B-Cell D. Lymph Nodes
20. How does the body tell the difference be- B. T2 Helper cells
tween its own cells and foreign cells? C. B-Cells
31. The response in which antibodies defend 37. Chemotaxis is facilitated by what comple-
against infection in body fluids is called? ment component?
A. Humoral response A. C5a
B. Surface proteins B. C3b
C. Killer T-cell C. C5
D. Cell mediated response
D. C5b
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32. In heavy chains, domains (regions) con-
sists of how many amino acids? 38. What is the primary phagocytic cell?
A. 110 A. Neutrophil
B. 250 B. Lymphocyte
C. 70 C. Basophil
D. 250 D. Monocyte
33. What is the general response the body has 39. Examples of a specific defense mecha-
to an infection? nism.
A. Non-specific response
A. T cells and B cells reacting to
B. Humoral response pathogens
C. Homeostasis B. Phagocytes engulfing pathogens
D. Vaccines C. Hydrochloric acid killing pathogens
34. Antigens are important because they help D. Mucus and cilia catching pathogens
the immune system
A. engulf infected body cells 40. What are cytotoxic protease molecules
which cleave various proteins in the target
B. cause pathogens to clump cell’s cytoplasm thus leading to apoptotic
C. recognize foreign cells death of the target cell?
D. produce T cells A. Granzymes
35. Lymphocytes borrowed from another B. Perforin
source and only last a short time C. Serglycin
A. Innate Immunity D. Cytokines
B. Adaptive Immunity
C. Passive Immunity 41. Some human white blood cells help destroy
pathogenic bacteria by
D. Neutrophils
A. causing mutations in the bacteria
36. What is your bodies first line of defense?
B. engulfing and digesting the bacteria
A. The skin
C. producing toxins that compete with
B. Muscles bacterial toxins
C. Cell-mediated response D. inserting part of their DNA into the bac-
D. Humoral response terial cells
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moral immunity
B. .5-1
D. antibodies are produced in humoral im-
C. 2-8 munity
D. 5-10
59. Diseases that can be transmitted to hu-
54. B-lymphocytes mature where? mans from animals are called
A. Lymph node A. Human diseases
63. What function do T cells have in humoral D. Mitotic division of B cells activated in
immunity? response toan infection
74. Which dendritic cell is located in the liver? 80. Foreign protein found on pathogens that
A. Kupffer cells the body reacts to
A. antibody
B. Interdigitating Dendritic cells
B. antigen
C. Langerhans cells
C. antigen-antibody complex
D. Microglial cells
D. pathogens
75. What are the APCs involved in the Cell Me-
81. Which Immunoglobin is produced in mu-
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diated Immune System?
cosal tissue?
A. Macrophages and Dendritic Cells A. Ig M
B. Dendritic Cells and B-lymphocytes B. Ig A
C. B-lymphocytes and Macrophages C. Ig G
D. Macrophages only D. Ig D
76. What is the rapid and highly specific 82. Which cells would be first responders dur-
response by the host’s immune system ing an immune response?
against a specific foreign substance which A. macrophages
had been previously encountered?
B. T-cells
A. Secondary Response
C. B-cells
B. Primary Response D. Memory cells
C. Tertiary Response
83. Which two cells will form an immunologi-
D. Complement Response cal synapse?
77. Function is to destroy foreign substances A. CTL and Target cell
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1. Cytotoxic T cells target host cells C. Type III
A. Type I D. Type IV
B. Type II 5. Which type of hypersensitivity involves
C. Type III IgE?
D. Type IV A. Type I
B. Type II
2. Which types of hypersensitivity involves
the mechanism of sensitization and activa- C. Type III
tion? D. Type IV
A. Type I & II
6. Immune mediator of food allergy:
B. Type II & III
A. IgM
C. Type III & IV
B. IgE
D. Type IV & I
C. IgG
3. Myco-remediation is bio-remediation that D. IgD
uses
7. Itching, redness and blistering around ear
A. Bacteria
lobes after wearing new earrings is caused
B. Seashells by which cells?
C. Plant A. B cells
D. Fungi B. T cells
A. Type 1 B. Type II
B. Type II C. Type III
C. Type III D. Type IV
D. Type IV 18. Who are your hosts (G3) today?:)
13. Stimulation of the unmyelinated re- A. Ali and Abu
sults in a dull, poorly localized, aching
B. Wan Iskandar and Pui Yee
type of pain usually associated with pul-
pal pain. C. I don’t know
A. A-delta D. none of above
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20. Which type I hypersensitivity reaction D. Type IV
is often initiated by an injected or gut-
absorbed allergen such as bee sting venom, 26. Which type of hypersensitivity involves
PCN, seafood, or nuts? IgG & IgM?
A. Type I
A. systemic anaphylaxis
B. Type II
B. localized reaction
C. Type III
C. food allergy
D. Type IV
D. none of above
27. Which type of hypersensitivity reaction
21. Systemic lupus erythematous is caused by will lead to release of pharmacologically
A. I don’t know active mediators?
B. Inhaled antigens A. Immune complex hypersensitivity
C. Immune reaction to nuclear self- B. Cell-mediated (Delayed) hypersensitiv-
antigens ity
D. none of above C. Anaphylactic (Immediate) hypersensi-
tivity
22. Which of the following is not preformed D. Cytotoxic hypersensitivity
mediators?
A. Leukotriene 28. Which antihistamine given can be used for
the indication of dermatitis?
B. Heparin
A. Benadryl (diphenhydramine)
C. Histamine
B. Zyrtec (cetirizine)
D. Serotonin
C. Allegra (fexofenadine)
23. Cementum overlaps enamel of time D. Claritin (loratadine)
A. 60% 29. The persistence of the immune complex
B. 30% and their deposition in tissue can trigger an
acute inflammatory response resulting in
C. 10%
immunological reaction .This best describe
D. 1.6% for which type of sensitivity?
24. Vaccines work because the immune sys- A. Type 1
tem saves the information in the: B. Type 2
A. Memory cells C. Type 3
B. Effector cells D. Type 4
30. Disease(s) caused by hypersensitivity 35. Leukotrienes and prostaglandins are con-
Type I sidered :formed when membrane phos-
pholipids are enzymatically cleaved.
C. IgA A. A-delta
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D. none of above C. Type III
41. What is bio-remediation? D. Type IV
A. Process where organic things are
47. Hemolytic Disease of the New Born
used to break down pollution
B. When you use biology to meditate A. Type I
51. After how many days of infection by 54. Vasodilation following a type I hypersen-
mosquitoes do the symptoms for malaria sitivity reaction is principally caused by
occur? which molecule?
B. leukotriene antagonists B. II
C. inhalation corticosteroids C. III
D. none of above D. IV
C. Hispanics A. Lupus
D. B and C B. Multiple sclerosis
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C. Blau syndrome & Castleman’s disease A. Symptoms may be vague
B. No specific lab tests exist to confirm a
D. Autoimmune peripheral neuropathy & diagnosis
Eczema C. Symptoms may come and go, making it
6. Which of these autoimmune diseases can hard to pinpoint the problem
be cured? D. All of the above
5.3 immuno-tolerance
1. What does CD8+ normally attaches to, to 3. Which is the general mechanism behind pe-
provide the primary signal for cytotoxic T- ripheral tolerance of T cells?
cells to activate? A. Antigen sequestration
A. MHCI B. Clonal anergy
B. MHCII C. Clonal deletion
C. TCR D. T-regulatory cells
D. BCR
4. What is the characteristic molecule that
2. Where can we find IgD? identifies T-regs?
A. B cells A. FOXP3
B. Plasma B. CD3
C. T cells C. CD8
D. Red blood cells D. IgM
5.4 cytokines
1. Name the first naturally occurring cy- A. promote dormancy
tokines. B. promote cell elongation
A. Neoxanthin
C. promote parthenocarpic fruit forma-
B. Xanthoxin tion
C. Zeatin D. promote elongation of internodes
D. Isopentenyl adenine
3. Which of these can prevent the falling of
2. This is not a function of gibberellins leaves?
A. auxins D. auxin
7. Which cytokine is made by several cells 13. Which of the following is considered an
and is considered an inhibitor of inflam- anti-inflammatory cytokine?
mation and also causes differentiation of A. INF-gamma
TH17 cells
B. IL-1b
A. TNF-alpha C. IL-4
B. TGF-beta D. IL-10
C. IL-7
14. Which of the following plant hormone is
D. IL-3 responsible for seed germination?
8. Which cytokine promotes humoral immu- A. Auxin
nity and is produced by Th2 cells? B. Gibberellin
A. INF-beta C. Ethylene
B. IL-4 D. Abscisic acid
15. What is a function of C-reactive protein 19. This causes delay in senescence
(CRP) as an acute phase reactant? A. ascorbic acid
A. Removes iron from gut
B. gibberellins
B. Modifies cholesterol metabolism
C. auxins
C. Promotes the activation of Comple-
ment D. cytokinins
D. Modulates wound healing response 20. What cytokine is produced by
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macrophages to induce liver production
16. What cytokine is produced by a plasmacy-
of acute phase proteins?
toid dendritic cell when it detects a virus
infected cell? This in turns “warns” neigh- A. IFN-b
boring cells of the virus attack. B. IL-5
A. Interferon-alpha
C. IL-6
B. Complement C3b
D. IL-7
C. IL-1beta
D. Interferon-gamma 21. Which chemokine is involved in recruiting
neutrophils to the extravascular space dur-
17. What cell type makes type I IFN’s? ing acute inflammation?
A. Mast cell A. CCL2 (MCP-1)
B. Plasmacytoid dendritic cell B. CXCL2 (MIP-2)
C. Monocyte C. CXCL8 (IL-8)
D. Neutrophil
D. none of above
18. Which cytokine is made by macrophages
and increases IFN-gamma production in NK 22. Which cytokine promotes cell-mediated im-
cells? munity and is produced by Th1 cells?
A. IL-1 A. INF-gamma
B. IL-4 B. IL-4
C. IL-10 C. IL-6
D. IL-12 D. IL-10
5.5 Vaccination
1. He belived that having cowpox gave peo- sponse to the vaccine?
ple from smallpox A. antigens
A. Immunity B. antibiotics
B. Vaccinaton C. antibodies
C. Innoculation D. the disease
D. Innocence
3. Typically contains an agent that resembles
2. The immune system produces what in re- a disease-causing microorganism and is of-
ten made from weakened or killed forms 9. A living microbe with reduced virulence
of the microbe that is used for vaccination is considered
14. Antibodies have what shape? 20. The scientific name for pertussis is
A. spherical shape A. tuberculosis
B. X-shaped B. whooping cough
C. Y-shaped
C. german measles
D. rod shaped
D. mumps
15. Are responsible for the immunity that of-
21. Involves the action of T lymphocytes and
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ten follows infection or vaccination.
phagocytes
A. Memory B lymphocytes
B. Plasma cells A. colonial selection
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8. Rheumatoid factor is classically seen as a 14. are large cluster of lymphatic cells
A. IgM versus IgG found in the pharynx
B. IgG versus IgG A. adenoids
C. IgG versus IGM B. thymus
D. IgA verus IgG
C. lymph nodes
9. The antibody that exists as a pentamer D. tonsils
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A. IgG
B. IgE 15. Which of the following is NOT part of the
secondary immune response
C. IgD
D. IgM A. Inflammation
19. If one of your parents is blood type A and 24. A person who comes down with malaria
the other is type B, which of the following can infer that he or she contracted it from
blood types would you likely be?
20. The basic antibody unit is composed of 25. Mono spot or Mono latex detects this sub-
A. 2 identical heavy chains and 2 different stance
light chains A. Ab to bovine rbc membrane
B. 2 identical heavy chains and 2 identical B. Ag to bovine rbc membrane
light chains
C. VCA IgM
C. 2 different heavy chains and 2 identical
light chains D. UVA IgG
D. 2 different heavy chains and 2 differ- 26. The release of substances enclosed within
ent light chains a vesicle to the outside of a cell. It occurs
by fusion of the vesicle with the plasma
21. CD4 T cells are generally restricted by
membrane
A. CD-1
A. Exocytosis
B. MHC class-I
B. Phagocytosis
C. MHC class-II
C. Endocytosis
D. β 2 microglobulin
D. Lysis
22. All of the following are ways that HIV can
be spread EXCEPT 27. Number of enzymes detected by Strep-
tozyme method
A. sharing needles for intravenous drug
use. A. 1
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B. avidity
30. This gland, located anterior to the heart, C. reactivity
but posterior to the sternum, is the lym-
phatic site where T cells are produced and D. specificity
mature: 36. Which of the following is NOT a first line
A. tonsils of defense of the non-specific (innate) im-
B. trachea mune system? These mechanisms prevent
pathogens from entering the body.
C. thymus
A. skin
D. thalamus
B. mucous membranes
31. All of the following are components of the C. fever
lymphatic system EXCEPT:
D. stomach acid
A. pancreas
B. tonsils 37. In immunity, antibodies are produced
after having encountered a pathogen or
C. spleen antigen.
D. nodes A. passive
32. Which blood type is the UNIVERSAL B. active
DONOR? C. direct
A. O+ D. indirect
B. O-
38. What immunoglobulin is involved in imme-
C. AB+ diate allergic responses?
D. AB- A. IgM
33. one of the results of immunity that we B. IgG
want is? C. IgE
A. autoimmune D. IgD
B. organ rejection
39. Heterophile antibody
C. hypersensitivity
A. Cross reacts with antigens from differ-
D. healing from infection ent species
34. An outbreak of a disease that can go B. Can’t stimulate ab but can react with it
worldwide.
A. Pandemic C. Causes allergic reactions
D. Reacts with more than one antigenic B. things like the skin and gastric juice
determinant C. antibody response
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58. Which of the following is NOT a “non-
A. NK cells specific defense” used to fight against in-
B. Mast cells fection.
C. Phagocytes A. Mucus
D. Granulocytes B. Saliva
53. These cells are known to process antigen C. Skin
prior to the humoral response
D. B-cells
A. Dendritic cells
B. Macrophasges 59. What microbe is used to create penicillin,
which is an antibiotic?
C. Dendrtic cell and macrophages
D. Tc lymphocytes A. Virus
62. Viruses and bacteria are common types of C. the use of antibiotics.
D. the presence of cilia on some cells.
65. The immune response that defends against C. When presented on the surface of anti-
antigens in body fluids, such as blood and gen presenting cells
lymph, is called D. Following presentation by pattern
A. inflammatory response recognition receptors
73. It is when a cell engulfs a solid particle to 79. A cancer of the bone marrow that causes
form an internal compartment an over production of white blood cells
A. Cytokine release A. leukopenia
B. Inflammatory reaction B. polycythemia
C. Phagocytosis C. anemia
D. Apoptosis D. leukemia
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74. Which of the following polypeptide is im- 80. Which pair correctly matches a vector and
portant for the expression of MHC I on the the infectious disease it carries?
cell membrane?
A. human-influenza
A. Interferons
B. opossum-rabies
B. β 2-microglobin
C. mosquito-malaria
C. Lymphokines
D. flea-Lyme disease
D. Interleukins
81. The antibody that is usually seen in secre-
75. Provide an entry point for pathogens into tions
plants
A. IgA
A. stomata
B. IgD
B. roots
C. IgM
C. leaves
D. IgE
D. petals
82. Demonstrable events during antigen-
76. Which is NOT an example of direct trans-
antibody reactions take place during
fer?
A. primary stage
A. Person to person
B. Animal to person B. secondary stage
77. What four types of pathogens are there? 83. Which leukocyte produces antibodies?
A. Bacteria, vector, fungi and protist A. lymphocytes
B. Bacteria, virus, vector and protist B. monocytes
C. Bacteria, virus, fungi and vector C. eosinophils
D. Bacteria, virus, fungi and protist D. basophils
78. The primary function of mast cells is to 84. The blood is stained with:
A. produce immunoglobulins A. Safranin
B. phagocyte microbial cells B. Carbol fuchsine
C. initiate haematopoiesis C. Leishman stain
D. releasing pro-inflammatory mediators D. Methylene blue
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97. The region inside the cell membrane of a C. DNA viruses.
bacterium D. Gram-negative bacteria.
A. bacteria
103. What are the two types of immunity?
B. endospore
A. Adaptive, Innate
C. cytoplasm
B. Active, adaptive
D. decomposers
C. Inactive, Innate
98. What are the immune cells found in the D. Acquired, Inactive
bloodstream called?
104. When you replace a persons immune sys-
A. White blood cells.
tem it is called immunity
B. Red blood cells. A. Adoptive
C. platelets B. Adaptive
D. plasma C. Acquired
99. What is the role of white blood cells? D. Innate or natural
A. To transport oxygen around the body 105. The basic immunoglobulin (Ig) unit is com-
B. To protect the body against pathogens posed of:
A. Two identical heavy and two identical
C. To produce pain killers light chains
D. To aid the clotting of the blood B. Two identical heavy and two different
light chains
100. An microbe that enters an organism and
C. Two different heavy and two identical
causes disease or sickness is called a/an:
light chains
A. macrophage
D. Two different heavy and two different
B. pathogen light chains
C. vaccine
106. Which of the following cells would NOT
D. flu be found in a germinal center in a lymph
node?
101. Which type of antigen-presenting
molecule is found only on macrophages, A. dendritic cells
dendritic cells, and B cells? B. B lymphocytes
A. MHC class 1 C. plasma cells
B. MHC class 2 D. monocytes
107. What is in a vaccine that helps your im- C. substance made by B cells
mune system fight a particular pathogen? D. chemical that makes the immune cells
D. Liver A. Erythrocytes
B. Dendritic cells
110. Which disease would be treated with
penicillin? C. Neutrophils
A. Chickenpox D. Mast cells
B. Diabetes 116. What part of a virus is the protein
C. Cancer capsule that houses the genetic material
(DNA/RNA)?
D. Strep Throat
A. tail
111. Having this indicates immunity to Hepati-
tis B B. nucleus
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C. plasma
119. What do viruses need to reproduce?
D. white blood cells
A. they need genetic material
B. They need a host cell 125. Which of the following is considered per-
sonal protective equipment (PPE) that the
C. They need bacteria employer should provide free of charge to
D. They need insulin the employee?
129. How are infectious diseases spread? 135. Cancer of the white blood cells is known
A. through coughing, sneezing, or physi- as
130. Which disease is not caused by bacteria? 136. Why do epidemics not occur as frequently
A. Strep throat now versus 100 years ago?
B. Pneumonia A. Immunizations/Vaccinations
C. Food poisoning B. New medicines
D. Influenza (the Flu) C. Better hygiene
131. Agarose, a porous matrix used in various D. none of above
molecular biology techniques, is made by
repetitive units of: 137. Bacteria are prokaryotes which means
A. Maltose they
B. Agarobiose A. have a nucleus in their capsule
C. Agar B. do not contain a nucleus
D. None of these C. can live in environments with and with-
132. liquid portion of the blood out oxygen
A. leukocytes D. none of above
B. erthryocytes
138. Pneumocystis pneumonia is an oppor-
C. plasma tunistic fungal infection that frequently be-
D. thrombin gins occuring in patients with less than
helpter T cells.
133. Antibiotics fight infections by
A. 100
A. preventing viruses from replicating.
B. killing bacteria B. 200
140. Majority of antigens are 146. Infectious disease spread in a small re-
A. Protein gion is called a
B. nucleic acids A. Infectious disease
C. carbohydrates B. Mutation
D. lipids C. Epidemic
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147. What triggers the production ofantibod-
involve: ies
A. NK and Macrophages
A. an antigen
B. B and Dendritic Cells
B. an antibody
C. B and T cells
C. phagocytes
D. T cells
D. none of above
142. White blood cells that are involved in the
third line of defence of the immune system 148. is a measure of the strength of the
include binding of 1 Fab region with its corre-
sponding epitope on the antigen.
A. mast cells.
A. Affinity
B. eosinophils.
C. lymphocytes. B. Avidity
D. macrophages. C. Equivalence
D. Post zone
143. Cell mediated immune response is trig-
gered by? 149. What is passive immunity?
A. Antibodies A. a type of general protection that hu-
B. T cell mans have. Many of the germs that affect
C. B cell other species don’t harm us.
A. Antibody D. Immunogen
B. Glycogen 161. The measure of Red Blood Cells in a sam-
C. Analyte ple
D. none of above A. hemoglobin
B. erythropoesis
156. Pain and swelling in an injured area is
called the C. anemia
A. B Cell resistance D. hematocrit
162. First-line defences that mammals have 168. Which part of human blood carries hor-
against invasion by disease-causing bacte- mones and nutrients?
ria include A. plasma
A. lysozymes. B. platelets
B. interferons. C. red blood cells
C. antibodies. D. white blood cells
D. cytotoxic T cell. 169. Agranulocyte-Largest wbc, powerful
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phagocyte, mature into macrophages,
163. Mast cells and basophils are both
A. Neutrophil
A. Lymphocytes
B. Lymphocyte
B. Stem cells
C. Monocyte
C. Granulocytes
D. Eosinophil
D. Lymphoid precursors
170. What is the name of MHC in humans? a)
164. The marker antibody for SLE HLA b) H2 c) Adjuvants d) Haplotype
A. RNP A. HLA
B. SSA B. H2
C. SSB C. Adjuvants
D. Smith D. Haplotype
171. A visible, nonreversible precipitation oc-
165. An array of more than 30 proteins that curs at the
circulate in the blood and are able to help
kill foreign cells A. zone of equivalence
177. what is the difference between B cells re- 182. of thymocytes is necessary to pro-
ceptors and antibody? duce a T-cell repertoire capable of interact-
ing with self-MHC molecules.
A. antibody doesn’t has transmembranne
region A. Positive selection
B. antibody has variable region B. Negative selection
C. B cells receptor made up 4 polypeptide C. Receptor editing
chains
D. Isotype switching
D. none of above
183. A person who has received a vaccine
178. The classical pathway of complement sys- against polio
tem involves
A. is able to produce antibodies against
A. Antibody polio.
B. Only C1 complement protein B. is more susceptible to the polio virus
C. T cells than someone who has not had the vac-
D. Neutrophils cine.
C. has polio antibodies in the blood-
179. Gram positive cells stain stream.
A. blue D. has antipolio killer T cells in the blood-
B. pink stream.
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B. HDL
A. non-specific defenses
C. Antibody
B. specific defenses
D. LDL
C. active immunity defense
D. passive immunity defense 191. Which of the following are the most rare
type of circulating wbc?
186. Granuloctye-most abundant, 1st on the
A. Monocytes
scene, phagocytic, born in the bone mar-
row, attack all viruses and bacteria, de- B. Neutrophils
stroy damaged tissue and bacteria. They C. Basophils
self destruct after one burst of activity.
D. Eosinophils
A. neutrophil
192. The cells derived from lymphoid as well
B. basophil
as myeloid lineage of HSC are
C. eosinophil
A. DC
D. monocyte
B. APC
187. A substance capable of stimulating the C. LC
formation of antibodies
D. Macrophages
A. Lipoprotein
193. This gland, located in the upper portion
B. Antigen
of the chest, is the lymphatic site where T
C. Antibody cells are produced and mature:
D. none of above A. tonsils
188. Peyer’s patches are found in B. trachea
A. Bone marrow C. thymus
B. Thymus D. thalamus
C. SALT 194. Which viruses have single-stranded RNA
D. MALT that acts as a template for DNA synthe-
sis?
189. Which of the following types of antibody
is the most effective in an agglutination A. viroids
test? B. retroviruses
A. IgG C. bacteriophages
B. IgD D. proviruses
207. An organism (or similar substance) that 212. Another name for white blood cells
enters another life form and causes dis- A. Lymphocyte
ease or sickness is a/an:
B. Leukocyte
A. macrophage
C. Erythrocye
B. pathogen
D. none of above
C. vaccine
213. A preparation of a substance that can be
D. antibody injected that stimulates the production of
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antibodies is called a(n):
208. Why is it important to thoroughly wash
your hands after touching raw meat? A. histamine
228. The change of IgM production to IgG pro- 234. A city has an outbreak of a disease that
duction is called affects an unusually large portion of its
A. Cytokine release population at the same time. Which term
best describes the outbreak?
B. Antibody production
A. pandemic
C. Isotype switching
B. plague
D. Immune cell development
C. infection
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229. Where does hemopoesis occur?
D. epidemic
A. Yellow marrow
B. red marrow 235. The first line of defense against foreign
C. inside muscles invaders is the system.
232. One confirmatory test for ANA specific 237. HBig or hepatitis immune globulin shot is
DNA autoab’s in lupus is to do A. Artificially passive
A. ENA testing
B. Artificially active
B. Crithidial staining of kinetoplast
C. Naturally passive
C. Centromere testing
D. Naturally active
D. Anti cytoplasmic staining
238. A T lymphocyte which has not encoun-
233. A substance that is being identified or
tered an antigen yet
measured in a lab test
A. Antigen A. Novice
B. Antibody B. Small
C. Analyte C. Stem
D. none of above D. Naive
239. Name given to any type of cell that en- B. a solution of an antigen
gulf and destroy viruses and bacteria
C. a solution of antibodies
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251. Which of the following immunity is ob- A. Gel diffusion
tained during a lifetime?
B. Electroimmunodiffusion
A. Acquired immunity C. Double-diffusion
B. Active immunity D. All of these
C. Passive immunity 257. A virus can be classified by its type of
D. none A. mitochondria
B. chromosomes
252. Titer is defined as
C. nucleic acid
A. greatest dilution showing the pres-
ence of a substance being measured D. carbohydrates
B. lowest dilution showing the presence 258. If a disease is caused by a bacteria then
of what is being detected
C. A single significant value A. the disease cannot be treated
B. the person will always die
D. The difference in titer between a pre
and post titer C. the disease can be treated with vita-
mins
253. A type of cell that “digests” pathogens D. the disease can be treated with antibi-
is known as a/an: otics
A. helper T cell 259. The type of disorder where body reacts
B. macrophage against harmless antigens that are not
pathogenic is known as a/n
C. suppressor T cell
A. allergy
D. plasma cell
B. autoimmune disorder
254. Affects the spinal cord leaving many in- C. immunodeficiency
fected individuals paralyzed, infection rate D. pneumonia
dropped by 99% when vaccine was intro-
duced in 1955. 260. Variable region of antibodies are located
on
A. polio
A. Fc portion
B. measles B. Constant region
C. pertussis C. Fab portion
D. tetanus D. Light chains only
261. Hassall’s corpuscles are located in D. you got your mother’s antibodies at
A. Thymus birth
266. How does a person get immunity through 271. The inflammatory response can cause
PASSIVE immunity? A. permanent immunity.
A. you have been infected B. pain, swelling and fever.
B. you have been vaccinated C. antibodies to bind to antigens.
C. you made antibodies D. killer T cells to attack infected cells.
272. what is the major organ in the body in B. Cytotoxic T cells to become activated
which antibodies are sythesized and re- C. B and T cells to create memory cells
leased into circulation?
D. Blood vessels to dilate and leak fluid
A. Bone marrow and WBC’s
B. The spleen
278. What do killer T-cells do?
C. Thymus gland
A. Kill all of the helper T-cells.
D. none of above
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B. Create antibodies to be produced into
273. makes a cell susceptible to the attack the blood stream.
of NK. C. Destroy cells that have been infected.
A. Absence of MHC 1 D. none of above
B. Presence of MHC 1
279. Physical, chemical and microbiological
C. TCR barriers provide
D. MAC A. inflammation response
274. The pattern of non-identity is observed B. innate immunity
in Ouchterlony Double Diffusion only if: C. conferred immunity
A. the two antigens are immunologically D. vaccination reaction
unrelated.
280. Which of the following diseases is pre-
B. the two antigens are partially identical.
vented with a vaccine when individuals
travel to tropical countries?
C. the two antigens are immunologically
A. Tuberculosis
identical.
B. Smallpox
D. None of these
C. Malaria
275. If a red blood cell has no antigens on its
D. Influenza
surface, what is its blood type?
A. A 281. Immunity allows the body to resist dis-
ease and prevents foreign bodies from
B. B
causing:
C. AB
A. susceptibility
D. O
B. immunity
276. HIV can be spread by: C. infection
A. Blood to blood contact D. heredity
B. sexual contact 282. The secretory ab found in mucous mem-
C. breastmilk branes
D. all of these A. IgG
283. Which of the following is an immunodif- 289. The first line of defense against antigen
fusion test? is the system.
A. respiratory
286. The detection of neurosyphilis was tradi- 292. Which viral life cycle allows viral genetic
tionally done with material to lay dormant while the host cell
reproduces?
A. VDRL
A. lytic
B. RPR
B. mitosis
C. Trepsure
C. lysogenic
D. TPPA D. S phase
287. Which of the following is an opsonin? 293. are released into your body by ,
A. C3a which makes you sick.
B. C3b A. toxins, bacteria
B. toxins, viruses
C. C4b
C. histamines, viruses
D. C5a
D. histamines, bacteria
288. What diseases have vaccines stopped
294. Taking antibiotics is generally an effec-
from spreading?
tive way to fight diseases caused by
A. measles A. bacteria
B. polio B. viruses
C. small pox C. A and B
D. all of these D. none of above
295. This helps to maintain the integrity of the 300. Athlete’s foot, ringworm, and thrush are
lining of the intestines, thereby helping to all infectious diseases caused by what
boost immunity pathogen?
A. Probiotics A. Virus
B. Selenium B. Bacteria
C. Vitamin A C. Protist
D. Fungus
D. Fatty Acids
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301. What is the name of the body’s defence
296. These are types of immunoglobulin, EX- system against diseases?
CEPT
A. The immune system
A. IgA
B. The control system
B. IgE
C. The vascular system
C. IgC D. The endocrine system
D. IgM
302. Means:“programmed cell death”
297. An antiviral is a medicine used to treat A. Natural Killer Cell
A. individuals who are infected with a B. Mitosis
virus. C. Apoptosis
B. individuals who are infected with a D. CD4 and CD8
bacterium.
303. Two types of lymphocytes (white blood
C. individuals who are healthy. cells) include
D. individuals who are not infected with a A. A cells and B cells
virus.
B. T cells and B cells
298. immunity results when antibodies C. C cells and Z cells
from another organism are put inside your
D. eukaryotes and prokaryotes
body to help fight pathogens.
A. Active 304. An antigen preparation and an antibody
preparation are tested by immunodiffu-
B. Passive sion. Three bands are found, indicating
C. Direct that:
308. “a substance that when mixed with 313. Compound formed when glucose at-
in immunogen, enhance the immune re- taches or glycosylates to the protein in
sponse against the immunogen”.this def- hemoglobin
inition refers to? A. Analyte
A. Adjuvant
B. LDL
B. Hapten
C. HDL
C. B cells and T cells
D. Hemoglobin A1c
D. none of above
314. Vaccinations are a type of
309. Granulocyte-Responds to parasitic
worms, born in the bone marrow, in- A. passive immunity
activating mediators released by mast B. memory immunity
cells and basophils, such as histamine,
leukotrienes, lysophospholipids, and hep- C. active immunity
arin, controls allergic reactions D. shot immunity
A. Neutrophil
315. These are examples of cells that can
B. Basophil present antigen to CD4+ T cells.
C. Lymphocyte
A. epithelial cells
D. Eosinophil
B. Macrophages, dendritic cells, and B
310. An antibiotic is a drug used to kill cells
A. bacteria C. Cells that express MHC-I molecules
B. viruses D. polymorphonuclear cells
316. For many uses in the laboratory, poly- 321. Antibiotics are prescribed to patients
clonal antibodies work well, but for some who have what type of infection.
types of assays, they lack sufficient A. Fungal Infection
because they cross-react with inappropri-
ate antigens. B. Bacterial Infection
C. Viral Infection
A. specificity
D. Archaeal Infection
B. sensitivity
322. A small injected dose of a pathogen that
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C. accuracy
stimulates the production of antibodies is:
D. reactivity
A. histamine
317. Which will increase the risk of infecting B. interferon
yourself with a pathogen?
C. pathogen
A. Washing hands
D. vaccine
B. Getting vaccinated
323. Vaccines will trigger your body to make
C. Keeping your pets healthy all of the following EXCEPT
D. Sharing water bottles and snacks A. antibodies
318. Which of the following statements is B. memory cells
TRUE about innate immune system? C. white blood cells
A. Innate immune system is a slow re- D. red blood cells
sponse.
324. immunity includes mechanisms that
B. Innate immune system is pathogen- are fully functional without exposure to a
specific. pathogen, toxin, or cancer cell(s).
C. It is activated by the presence of anti- A. Innate
gen.
B. Adaptive
D. None of the above
C. Active
319. Immunization or vaccination is known as D. Passive
immunity
325. present in the pus of wounds
A. Immunization acquired
A. esonophils
B. inherited
B. neutrophils
C. active
C. basophiles
D. artificially acquired D. monocytes
320. Eosinophil degranulation therefore in- 326. Responsible for the transportation of O2
duces and CO2
A. developmentof T cell responses A. erythrocytes
B. antibody production B. leukocytes
C. degranulation C. Platelet
D. phagocytosis D. thrombocytes
338. How does a fungus attach to it’s host and 344. Which of the following lead to release of
absorb nutrients? histamine?
A. Tentacles A. C1
B. Hyphae B. C2a
C. Spores C. C3a
D. Roots D. C4a
345. which among the following has pen-
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339. Granulocyte-Responsible for allergic re-
actions, releases histamines and heparin tameric structure
A. Neutrophil A. IgM
B. IgG
B. Basophil
C. IgA
C. Eosinophil
D. IgD
D. Monocyte
346. Which disease below can be fought with
340. Examples of opsonins a vaccination?
A. IgG A. chicken pox
B. C3B B. athlete’s foot
C. CRP C. staph infection
D. all of the above D. ring worm
341. Which of the following get rid of good 347. First cell to arrive at the site of an infec-
cells that have been infected? tion.
A. Antibodies A. Basophils
B. B Cells B. Eosinophils
C. Memory Cells C. Neutrophils
D. T Cells D. NK cells
342. The RPR test is 348. Any microorganism that can cause dis-
ease
A. non treponemal test screening test
A. pathogen
B. often used as a specific test for
B. antigen
syphilis
C. antibody
C. is a confirmatory test for syphilis
D. virus
D. specific treponemal test
349. Virus replication may be slowed down by
343. A large cell that engulfs and destroys the natural production or administration of
pathogens is called a this signaling protein:
A. T Cell A. interferon
B. B Cell B. histamine
C. A Cell C. plasma cell
D. Phagocyte D. antibodies
361. Cytotoxic T cells will bind with their TCR B. Pattern of Partial Identity
to which of the following?
C. Pattern of Non-Identity
A. free antigen in a soluble form
D. none of above
B. antigens presented with MHC I
molecules 367. Agglutination reaction is seen in
C. haptens only A. Blood grouping
D. antigens presented with MHC II B. Gel precipitation
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molecules
C. Soluble antigens
362. what are one of the cellular component
of innate immune system? D. All of the options
B. composed of alpha and beta chain 370. Which cell of the immune system actu-
C. made up of 4 polypeptides chain ally confers immunity to a specific disease?
(Think back to the immune system game)
D. involve in humoral immune response
A. Memory B-Cells
365. An immune response is triggered by
a(an) B. Macrophages
A. antibiotic. C. Neutrophils
B. antibody. D. Eosinophils
C. antigen.
371. What provides direct energy for the
D. histamine. virus?
366. If there is an antigen with epitope A and A. food
an antigen with epitope B, with both Anti-
B. its host
B and Anti-A antibodies what pattern will
occur? C. the sun
A. Pattern of Identity D. a parasite