Immune System Study Help

Hello Students and Parents,

Below is a list of the questions and concepts that you need to know for the test tomorrow.  Also at the bottom you will find the questions that we had on the quiz on Friday for your review and study.

Immune System Study Guide:
What is a pathogen?

How does HIV work or function?

How does an antibiotic work?

What is an antibiotic used for?

What does contagious mean?

How are the four ways of disease transmission different from each other?

What is a pathogen?

Explain the difference between the body’s internal and external defense.

How does a vaccine work and what are the advantages of them?

Understand the differences of parasites, fungi, bacteria, and viruses.

Be able to define each of the terms from the VIS chart. 

Review the diseases mentioned from pages 247-267 in your textbook.

Understand the differences between viruses and bacteria and how they affect the body. 



Friday's Quiz: 
Immune System Quiz 
 1. List 3 of the four causes of infectious disease? All four for extra credit viruses, bacteria, fungi, parasites 
 2. Explain what a vaccine is? weakened or dead pathogens used to make a person immune from a disease. 
3. Between the terms contagious and infectious, which one means that a person has a disease that can be transmitted or spread to another person? Contagious
4. Name the term that signifies a group of specialized white blood cells and tissues recognize and attack foreign substances in the body? Immune System
5. Which type of white blood cell is responsible for recognizing the viral antigen on the macrophage, and triggers the T cell response and the B cell response? Helper T Cell 
6. Name the 3 of the four ways that diseases can be transmitted? All four for extra credit Person to Person, Water and Food, Animals to People, Contaminated Objects 
7. Explain why the body would react to a pathogen by starting a fever in the body?
8. Name any two ways a person can avoid disease?
 9. What is the term we give to something that causes a mutation? Mutagen 
10. Explain what is the difference between noninfectious and infectious disease?

Have a great test!
Mr. Garcia