Certificate Exam Questions and Answers
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• The stem cell divides, producing undifferentiated stem cells that are of what
lineage? -✓✓myeloid or lymphoid
• What cells do myeloid precursors turn into? -✓✓red blood cells, white blood
cells, and platelets
• What cells do lymphoid precursors turn into? -✓✓specialized white blood cells
called lymphocytes
• Granulocytes are -✓✓basophils, eosinophils, neutrophils
• Agranuloyctes are -✓✓T lymphocytes, B lymphocytes, monocytes
• What two type of immunity make up the immune system? -✓✓innate and
adaptive
• What line of defense is innate immunity? -✓✓first
• What is the role of innate immunity? -✓✓is to mount a non-specific response to a
non-self entity that does not retain memory of the entity
• What types of things does innate immunity respond to? -✓✓skin, mucous
membranes, normal flora of the skin and gut as barrier or bacterial protection
against foreign substances AND cellular components such as phagocytes, natural
killer cells, granulocytes, and macrophages
• If innate immunity proves to be insufficient, what is mobilized? -✓✓adaptive
immunity
• Adaptive immunity leads to what? -✓✓immune system memory related to a
pathogen or foreign substance